How To Use Manly In A Sentence

Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
She was older, a yellow-haired journeyman holist almost womanly in the fullness of her body. THE BROKEN GOD
They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times

Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
For the cordwainer, a family to feed and educate in the domestic realm was as vital a component of the performance of his manly workplace duties as a hammer and a leather apron. 14 There was no perceived separation between his duties stitching leather and his duties feeding and educating his family. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
You may have noticed, Mrs Jordan, that we are finally around to respecting your womanly judgment.
When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase, St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off.
If you feel the need to make something manly of it, fry up strips of bacon and add them too. Times, Sunday Times
There is a lot to be said for the manly virtues - courage, stoicism and strength. The Sun
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
There's absolutely nothing unmanly about wanting to make the world a more loving place.
The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
She stood tall, unlike Winnie, she was 5'8, with a nice slender figure, with womanly curves.
The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been. The Silent Superstar
The literal translation is Manly deeds, womanly words or Deeds are male, words are female.
she mistook his manly regard for love
Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
After the tour, Manly was joined in the chase for Ofahengaue's signature by St. George.
Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The filthy, unsportsmanly, dog-eating Prussian swine! Bruce
There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court. TANK OF SERPENTS
The sight of him filled her with a womanly sympathy.
But there was one - an older girl with womanly hips and breasts, and lips as full as Alice's.
This is not an individual who is out there doing something strong or manly or anything of this type.
Just something that they had to say to make themselves feel manly, I guess. Everyday Violence
_ Ha! ha! nay there she abused you, 'tis plain; for you know what Manly said: the sweetness of your pulvillio she might mean; but for your breath! ha! ha! ha! History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
Not only has she been in great demand, but her youthful on-screen tendency to look pained and always on the verge of tears has been replaced by a saucy, aggressive, womanly tone.
He looks back on his seven years with Manly United as character-forming, and invaluable in terms of real-life experience.
Small wonder that, mounted on her fiery little mustang, untrammeled by her short gray riding-habit, free as the wind itself that blew through the folds of her flannel blouse, with her brown hair half-loosed beneath her slouched felt hat, she seemed to Dick a more beautiful and womanly figure than the stiff buckramed simulation of man's angularity and precision he had seen in the parks. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
Thoughtful jazz lovers of all degrees of musical literacy ought to be delighted and enlightened by Gioia's yeomanly effort.
He cannot, as it were, imagine his manly project without an enemy, and oddly enough, the woman reader stands in for this enemy — literally, the effeminated reader rather than the female one — instead of standing in for the ennabling reader, she who urges the knight onward or who needs to be rescued by his valiant acts. Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
Alone, the word shirt carries plenty of manly associations, at least if one looks widely enough into its roots. The English Is Coming!
It was a dodgy existence, sharing more with high-risk adventure sports than gentlemanly pursuits.
Although she is prone to gain weight over her lifetime, at this point she doesn't have a ‘pot belly’ or ‘love handles,’ just nice womanly curves!
Why should a woman's style go from stylish and elegant to manly and boxy when she is dressed in her clerical attire for ministering? Times, Sunday Times
Their talk, he thought, exhibited 'manly beauty', so he believed himself listening to three young noblemen. The Times Literary Supplement
‘There was something ungentlemanly about a man who was so obviously on the make,’ says Ingrams.
What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
They've made snarky jabs about the administration using our soldiers as ' social workers, ' doing all sorts of unmanly, unsoldierly duties.
Truly, "warlike, manly courage and devotion to duty" seem the flowers that flourish hereaway. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.
She goes to designers who know how to flatter a womanly figure. Times, Sunday Times
Described as ‘a model of affability and dignity… remarkable for his fine form and manly beauty,’ he was something of a dandy whose favorite overcoat was made of sable skins lined with scarlet broadcloth.
Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
As an example of womanly evil, she is criticised; the female sexuality that causes these perceptions remains the foundation for both her good and her evil.
She had huge norks, a tight jumper and really, really tight jeans, and tonight would be the night that I would be the manly man and make my move.
Not every man knows his way around a shooting piece, but firearms are a manly art.
Claude thought due to a manly, adventurous life, was really due to well-shaped bones; Usher's face was more "modelled" than most of the healthy countenances about him. One of Ours
She vowed if it was humanly possible, no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor.
Ever since I was a wee lad of five, it's been imprinted on my brain to be chivalrous and gentlemanly.
She lay there, keening away, bedewing my manly bosom with her tears. THE NUMBERS
I am very proud of the fact that I have been as faithful to the truth as humanly possible.
He talked, and his spirit grew tender and manly and husbandlike, as he told his plans and his hopes. Other Main-Travelled Roads
I have a womanly body so they've made me feel in proportion. The Sun
Just something that they had to say to make themselves feel manly, I guess. Everyday Violence
Sharma reported it all in a deep and somber voice, manly but sensitive.
Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian. Boulevardier's Delight
They were used to build the wealth of white America and the history of how they were inhumanly exploited is precisely what some Americans would like us to forget. Janet Langhart Cohen: America's History
Calvinist missionaries dealt with a culture that had aikane by calling christianist and capitalist culture "manly," Hawaiian society "feudal," and feudalism "effeminate. Archive 2006-11-01
His teeth were gritted, his body locked, as though he were only just holding back an unmanly scream. COLDHEART CANYON
In reference to women, however, and particularly in this scene, the moon also symbolises womanly beauty and is associated with the female principle yin.
I feel duty bound to ensure that situation doesn't happen again as far as humanly possible.
It took me a second to home in on that perfect specimen of manly-buffness.
They make me feel manly. The Sun
Put together with an engaging combination of showmanly flair and scholarly responsibility by Scott Simmon, the author of the seminal study "The Invention of the Western Film" Cambridge University Press, it's a selection that seeks to represent the range and depth of the material preserved in the vaults of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House and the National Archives. NYT > Home Page
There came a feminine voice was feminine, soft and womanly.
When phoning in, be as graphic as humanly possible.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror and stick out your gut so that you can complain and whine even more about how you're getting fat.
First clad with the softe barcke of trees, or the faire broade leaues, and in processe with rawe felle and hide full vnworkemanly patched together. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
M. Wastchenko possesses in an eminent degree what Swift calls the aldermanly, but never to be over estimated quality, Discretion; he was considered generally a very safe man. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne The Decameron
My father, a fresh-faced young man, newly employed by a paper company, looks very proper and gentlemanly.
I should, however, clarify that I am speaking humanly when I say this.
Personally I regret that it has done so to the detriment of the more manly pedestrian exercises, wrestling, and the clever game of knur and spell.
Yes, a dark-haired, humanly-dressed faerie was dragging the pen back and forth, scratching out words onto the paper.
Tom, in his own mind, had done everything humanly possible to make himself happy, and therefore make me happy, and I was supposedly just too self-obsessed and negative to appreciate all that he had done for himself, and therefore me. Roseanne Archy
However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
That sort resents the 'girl' in the situation because she's getting more attention by being a sexual attractant and not actually 'earning' her place as a TRUE swooner in the manly bully's pack. Speaking of indescribable stupidity …
Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever! The Caged Lion
While fencing is usually thought of as a manly sport, the women of the University of Victoria fencing club have a much different perspective.
Nero's boyish pride by taunting him with what she called his degrading and unmanly subjection to his mother. Nero Makers of History Series
I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular priesthood.
Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tom Friedman Slanders Israel
So, on the other hand, this ichthyoid, reptilian, or monochondyloid ideal of the self-made man can only be reached, universally, by a nation which holds that poverty, either of purse or spirit, -- but especially the spiritual character of being [Greek: ptôchoi tô pneumati], -- is the lowest of degradations; and which believes that the desire of wealth is the first of manly and moral sentiments. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
She could have been human-almost-had she not been so unhumanly fair. Starways
Even before those rumors started, people thought of him as coarse, ungentlemanly, and shallow.
Britain's envoy pigeon-toed it from the hall wearing an inbred public-school jowliness which he perhaps thought was manly. Palestine Blogs aggregator
The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Begging to be excused for a moment, he passed away into the rearmost quarters of the bank; whence, after an appreciable interval, he returned again in earnest talk with a superior, an oldish and a baldish, but a very gentlemanly man. The Wrong Box
His student team was not allowed to kick for touch and the style was running and passing; ungentlemanly conduct was unthinkable.
Not that she is unwomanly. Times, Sunday Times
She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
There is no doubt that Mr. Bojowald will leave many casualties by the roadside — but those who persevere will find undoubted insights into one possible explanation of the universe at its most fundamental and will experience the work of top-level science as close to first-hand as is humanly possible for a nonscientist. How It
Johnson's mother stressed intellectual and artistic achievement, while his father considered intellect and culture to be unmanly.
More than eight out of ten hirsute he-males told some infantile men's magazine that their chest fuzz made them feel more manly.
The mother presented to, me her other son, likewise very good-looking, but more manly than the 'castrato', although younger. Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 02: a Cleric in Naples
She used her womanly wiles/charms to persuade him to change his mind.
So far, the election campaign has been a very gentlemanly affair.
There are manly love songs (like the mid-tempo "Heartache That Don't Stop Hurting," stopped from being a full-fledge weeper only by Aldean's limited range). Album review: Jason Aldean, "My Kinda Party"
I recovered some where they had halted in bieldy places; others of them went further, and fell into other hands, and particularly into those of a neighbour, who, a short while previously, had played an unmanly part relating to a sheep and the march which ran between us. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
Most fathers try to instill a sense of the manly arts in their sons through athletics.
The Hagen was a free-and-easy place compared with the Rheinischer, and among its inmates there was no one who could sing a better song than manly George -- type of the Briton at whom foreigners stare -- who, ignorant of a word of their language, wholly unprovided with any authorisation save the passport signed "Salisbury," and having not quite so much business at the seat of war as he might have at the bottom of a coal-mine, gravitates into danger with inevitable certainty, and stumbles through all manner of difficulties and bothers by reason of a serene good-humour that nothing can ruffle and a cool resolution before which every obstacle fades away. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
We also need to be less gentlemanly in our public utterances. Times, Sunday Times
Golf has so many courteous practices that it deserves its reputation as a gentlemanly game. Times, Sunday Times
A favourite theme with the company was the want of soldiers or generals at the North, and the impossibility that a set of mechanics and tradesmen, who knew only how to make money and keep it, should be able in chivalrous and gentlemanly exercises to cope with the Southern cavaliers, who were accustomed to sword and pistol and the use of them from their youth up. Daisy in the Field
By the light of a charcoal fire, clay images were ruddily discernible; before these the enchanters moved unhumanly clad, and doing things which, mercifully perhaps, were veiled from Manuel by the peculiarly perfumed obscurity. Figures of Earth
The jerk came up to bat looking grim and manly and got aboard with a bloop grounder down the third-base line.
Pindars allegorize a division between disciplined and vulnerable bodies, true and false patriotism, manly and unmanly sentiment. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
Some were like Evan's mill, _which was a gentlemanly mill_; it would go when it had nothing to do, but it refused to work. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
In an admirable show of gentlemanly sportsmanship the Tough Guy race also appears to be open to female competitors. Times, Sunday Times
He looked so manly in his uniform.
He couldn't humanly refuse to help her.
So, yeah, it's really nice having the women around and having that womanly support.
She wanted to put as much distance as was humanly possible between herself and Adrian.
As women entered the retail workforce, authorities identified ideal characteristics of the new retail system as womanly.
The exercise of the voice on the stage is womanly, while she gives out the thoughts of another; but suppose (and it is not unsupposable) a living female Shakespeare to appear on a platform, and utter her inspirations, delicacy is shocked, decency is outraged, and society turns away in disgust! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
This man always impresses me with respect, he is so manly, so sweet-tempered, so faithful, so disdainful of all appearances, excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field, so honest withal, that he always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself. Uncollected Prose
The restaurant was virtually empty, just us and one other distant table where four besuited gentleman were enjoy a manly dinner with lots of drinking and smoking prevailing.
He acted honourably and, in the gentlemanly world of golf, with the intention of abiding by the rules.
He may have kept it secret because he worries it makes him look less manly. The Sun
Delicately frayed shirts, skirts and dresses are formfitting and highlight the womanly curves we've been blessed with.
Over the years, he has taken hold of his practical joke side to bombard me with as many tricks as humanly possible.
Skimpole expects a living from the world without actually earning it, either in the gentlemanly professions or in trade.
Pete, however, seemed to take exception to being deprived of a chance to demonstrate his manly courage and kept shouting ‘In the water, in the water!’
Her tongue darted out faster than humanly possible, catching a drop on the tip.
But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
Golf has so many courteous practices that it deserves its reputation as a gentlemanly game. Times, Sunday Times
He was the ideal of manly beauty.
But Chow has a strong, manly voice, and now that he's been given some English lines the audience can hear and appreciate that strong manliness.
Lamb associates with cod's head: nor has it on the other hand that fine falling off flakiness, that obsequious peeling off (as it were like a sea onion) which endears your cods head & shoulders to some appetites, that manly firmness combined with a sort of womanish coming-in-pieces which the same cods head Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
Grandpa would, in essence, teach me to be afraid, to understand the humiliation that awaited me if I dared shed tears or demonstrate some other unmanly behavior.
Instead of mounting a dunghill and crowing how well we have revenged ourselves on others, we might want to offer sound and sustainable ideas of individual, economic and social justice to ensure as far as humanly possible that every person everywhere has an equal opportunity to enjoy life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. Bin Laden's Death Raises Moral Issues
They look more manly than a cupcake. Times, Sunday Times
He kissed my hand at the end of the evening - in a very courtly and gentlemanly way, not like a smarmy guy making a move.
A womanly figure needs more support than this offers. The Sun
But even the mousiest specimen will discover his inner manly man when he sees a woman he wants to be with. Jag Carrao: 5 Lies Women Tell Themselves
And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet. The Moon Pool
I have to go, just to see how that's humanly possible.
He was also found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct, but a charge of using foul and abusive language was not proven.
No current Dem leader would threaten such a thing because under Washington rules, only manly Republicans are allowed to play hardball — for Democrats to play anything but softball is unseemly. Matthew Yglesias » Late Lunch Open Thread
Presenting Manly P. Hall, author of "Road to Inner Light" (p. 102-3), with my notes in brackets: Elena Brower: The Art of Attention: Authoring Your Life
Berri accompanied us all the way south, in various heroic poses—Berri resting chin on hand and looking pensively into the distance; Berri in a manly political embrace with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; Berri shaking one finger in the air; Berri making a fist and looking like a wiseguy in black sunglasses. Day of Honey
In the same manner, I would recommend neither a raw, unmellowed style, which, (if I may so express myself) has been newly drawn off from the vat; nor the rough, and antiquated language of the grave and manly Thucydides. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
Constantia he could condemn for revealing to much to his manly sight.
I think I knew what he was going to say, and I wanted to put it off as long as humanly possible.
His first glimpse of her, on Class Day, in a white gown and a hat that to his manly indiscrimination looked as guileless as a sheaf of poppies nodding above the pale-yellow hair that had the sheen of corn-silk, had been a vision that stirred in him heroic promptings. Judith of the Plains
The garments Otoko Kaoru, invented by a Japanese company, have special rose-scented micro-capsules in the collar which, when they come in contact with the skin, release a (presumably manly) fragrance.
But after revelations involving prostitutes, coupled with a spate of ungentlemanly scuffles on the football pitch his bankability could be in jeopardy.
But I must admit there are times that I wished I looked a bit more womanly than teenageish.
Yet for the sake of indulging themselves in the beautiful lies and gentlemanly disposure of these ‘hosts’, which they claim to be absent in most Japanese men, they were willing to pay for that ‘temporary love’ they claimed money could buy. Babycartercl Diary Entry
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Brene Brown
By the 17th century, people realized that this was humanly impossible. Christianity Today
As a consequence people get burned out, if not self destructive, the turnover is high, and we fail to develop the structures and support that enable people to pursue a long term humanly worthwhile experience in the Perth left. Undefined
the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly
She accepted his expressions of sympathy and gratitude for seeing him, with sweet womanly grace.
A contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional form, the cloister is a luminous, humanly scaled ambulatory space that leads visitors through the pavilion.
some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it
Then again, you generally seem to be approach this type of issue via an all-encompassing and lamebrained dichotomy between wimpy, social democratic and stagnating Europe on one side and manly, free-market, rugged individualist and dynamic America on the other. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
Manly-Warringah chased Ofahengaue's signature prior to the Wallaby tour of New Zealand but without success.
If the grown man at times takes an in* terest in the amusements and sports of the child, and mixes in his pastimes for completely anbending his mind, that is no dishonour to him: but if he do so with manly earnestness, treat in« significant objects as weighty concerns, and re« solves in one and the same view to support the character of the child and the man, will that re - dound to his honour? Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight. Kenneth Hite's Journal
Her actions reveal the ability for self-aware introspection, as she acts on her awareness of the disjunction between her disembodiment and the humanly embodied knowledge she possesses.
Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Naturally and humanly speaking we will feel anxious if we are about to lose our job. Beat Stress
Reports suggest he has had occasion to shed the gentlemanly demeanour and give miscreants a good dressing-down.
The glide of athletic assurance in a body trained for bolder actions than gentlemanly falderal. Earl of Durkness
The gecko glowered at Nawin with appetite and fixed interest as if he were an esculent appetize -- the gecko crawling on the railing of the BTS Skytrain station looking down at the small womanly morsels and traffic below and amorous Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused throughout, he felt like he was falling into a deep - blue eternal space. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
She's not what I call womanly, and I hate these unsexed females. The Simpkins Plot
Apparently, we like people more if we can do them favours, and it makes men feel manly and useful. The Sun
However, _quid multis_ Mr. Hyacinthus; 'tis no indoctrinated or obscure scribe who now addresses you, and who does so from causes that may be salutary to your own health and very gentlemanly fame, according as you resave the same, not pretermitting interests involving, probably, on your part, an abundant portion of pecuniarity. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
That manly grip on normality so prized by your Tom Hankses and your Harrison Fords is for Carrey a wild and desperate bluff. The Existential Clown
The pursuit of education and a career is secondary and may even be perceived as ‘un-Greek’ or unwomanly.
He was powerfully built, tall and brown, with straight black hair to his shoulders, radiating a manly beauty and inner strength that was unearthly in its intensity.
As something of a London scholar I can assure you that the notion is as ludicrous as suggesting that the author of "White Fang" was a cross-dressing hermaphrodite who buried his sexual shame in manly exploits. Essays
Mr Manly said a forced door leading from the check-in area could have allowed someone to plant a bag with a Pan Am luggage label where bags were loaded on to planes.
The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
There's a huge underlying feeling/history in a lot of cultures that to be intellectually sharp and independent is somehow unwomanly.
Eager to cut the tension following what they perceived to be a slightly unmanly excursion - two guys looking at art together - they headed directly to a bar…
All this is quite as naturally and "humanly" conceived and written on St Paul's part as anything that I or my reader ever wrote about joys and griefs, our own or of our friends. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
Born and reared among the lowly, a stranger to wealth and luxury, compelled to grapple single-handed with the flintiest hardships of life, from tender youth to sturdy manhood, he grew strong in the manly and heroic qualities demanded by the great mission to which he was called by the votes of his countrymen. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
He was also found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct, but a charge of using foul and abusive language was not proven.
He pushed caution to such extremes that you can only call ungentlemanly where The Torch and Other Tales
His list of virtues is a remarkably unaggressive, uncompetitive, one might almost say womanly list.
He scoffed in what was considered a manly scoff and placed his fingers back to the bridge of his nose.
Something a lot more important is that I finally cut off my goatee, tears were shed and stories told then WHAM! after seven months of growth my manly mug was as smooth as a babies butt with fine grain sandpaper stuck to it. Bolivia is cool… carajo! « Brandino’s Bolivia Blog
By being too gentlemanly to twist the knife after inserting it. Times, Sunday Times

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