Manliness

Manliness is loveliest when applied with confidence.

She told me that I lacked manliness.

My manliness came into question when I started to like the colour pink.

My boyfriend just oozes manliness.

What's "manliness"? That word's not in our dictionaries.

Don't give me that nonsense, Manuel! Are you a man or aren't you? Well then, stop looking for excuses and do what you must do: hunt a wild boar to feed your family and prove your manliness to your fiancée.

The beautiful simplicity and naivete of the man’s character, the mean circumstances in which his life was cast, the fortitude, industry, and manliness with which he triumphed over his difficulties—these things explain much that seems at first sight futile in his art and colour even his worst failures with a glow of purely human sympathy.

What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness— a foul creature to be incontinently slain.

Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure The Sense of Man, and all his Mind possess, As Beauty’s lovely Bait, that doth procure Great Warriors oft their Rigour to repress; And mighty Hands forget their Manliness,

With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes, And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose; And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear, And clasped them close, in sorrow doubly dear; Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief In all the silent manliness of grief.