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  • When Langdon reached the exit of the park, he swallowed his machismo and jammed on the brakes.†  (source)
  • We tend to think of Latin America, with its legacy of machismo, as a man's world.†  (source)
  • The machismo?†  (source)
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  • So what can this "great work" and its spirituality, sexual politics, code of machismo, and overwrought violence teach us?†  (source)
  • The culture of ascent was characterized by intense competition and undiluted machismo, but for the most part, its constituents were concerned with impressing only one another.†  (source)
  • Sarge was legendary around the sheriff's department for his bravery and machismo.†  (source)
  • The bulls that crowd around him seem almost sweet, acting more like a bunch of Ferdinands than like fierce symbols of machismo.†  (source)
  • We were laughing because we found the level of machismo exaggerated.†  (source)
  • I know all about Mexican men and your machismo.†  (source)
  • It's a new technothriller stocked with laser-guided weapons, gunboats, all flavors of machismo.†  (source)
  • Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.†  (source)
  • But there is an element of machismo in the Sherpa culture that makes many men extremely reluctant to acknowledge physical infirmities.†  (source)
  • It was the machismo anthem, and rarely could one visit zpulqueria without hearing at least several of its verses: Con dinero y sin dinero, With my pockets full or empty, hago siempre lo que quiero, I just do whatever's tempting, y mi palabra es la ley.†  (source)
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