How To Use Masculine In A Sentence
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It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge.
Gina Pell: What To Wear In 2010
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A hesitant and very masculine voice echoed through the earpiece.
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Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
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Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effeminate.’
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A masculine voice inquired from somewhere to her left, effectively scaring the living daylights out of Sydney and drawing a startled yelp from her lips.
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Read on, in today's story column, just after the word for the day: conjoint (kon-zhwan) noun, masculine
Jean-Marc
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Latin homo is a masculine noun that can mean a human being, a male person, or humanity in general.
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Somehow the sight of five very masculine black men in heavy pancake did not diminish the fact that this was still a guys' movie.
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Nevertheless, he captures the music's masculine swagger right from the very first chord.
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This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine.
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As an object of fascination and repulsion to the two men who represent the center of authority in their respective narratives, Carmen spells a threatening other, a dark figure that resists assimilation and endangers masculine power.
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The voice too, was masculine, speaking into his mind clearer than ever before, strong and deep.
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Masculine pieces with an aviator flavour lend a dressed-down vibe to the body-con animal print skirt.
The Sun
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At the airport G, who is basically ten times more masculine than me, was almost frantic with nerves.
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His once very masculine apartment with it's autographed sports and political memorabilia, perfectly categorized books and movie collections which were once kept in obsessively compulsive neat order, came to resemble a day care center.
Susanna Quinn: Eight Weeks With Dad
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The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.
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Prisoners are usually referred to in the masculine gender.
The Prisons We Deserve
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He also had a certain masculine mystique about him, unlike the intellectual, artistic and sometimes effete men who were part of her set.
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Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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A diversity of masculine subjectivities is mobilized around and through Spike as he comes to terms with challenges to his power.
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These voices are divided into four categories; haute-contre (high tenor/male alto), taille (low tenor/lyric baritone) and basse (bass) for masculine voices, and dessus (treble) for high voices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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For those of you who like to photograph people, today's popular French word will be a nice change from the predictable "Say cheese!" approach. le ouistiti (we-stee-tee) noun, masculine
Le ouistiti - French Word-A-Day
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Filling the role of Fiona Belli places the player in limbo between voyeur and subject, exploiter and exploited, violator and violable, and for most players, between masculine and feminine.
Critique: Haunting Ground
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That would account for someone deciding that the plural ending was i, not realizing that this was true only of masculine nouns, not neuters.
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In her life and throughout her oeuvre, she unabashedly appropriated the prerogative of the fetishistic gaze associated with the masculine observer.
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It's the nominative masculine plural definite article.
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It was known that animal micro-organisms, unlike vegetable micro-organisms, after a cycle of life in which reproduction takes place by scission -- that is, by subdivision of a single body into several other bodies equal to the first, give place to _sexual forms_, masculine and feminine, which are separate, and incapable of scission, but are designed for _fusion into one another_, after which the organism recommences its cycle of scissions until it again reaches the sexual forms.
Spontaneous Activity in Education
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Moira is a woman of firm opinions who is not impressed with masculine presumptions.
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She became the virtuous focus of masculine desire, the unmoved mover who stirred her subjects to acts of gallantry and heroism.
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That was the genitive singular ending on what are called masculine strong nouns.
The English Is Coming!
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Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled.
The Portion of Labor
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I spun around at the sound of a masculine voice and nearly jumped out of my skin.
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They had seemed so masculine and imposing, with their crisp waistcoats, elegant tailcoats, and fancy neck cloths.
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Those who dissolve two negative is strong bottle, had better be to use masculine gender to come peacemaker, ining that case is namely become the man should pay responsibility to go mediatory .
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I felt a very masculine rush of man 's mastery over nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has a very masculine voice.
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By the way, unlike the French, con's American equivalent would be the masculine organ, prick, and schmock is, I think, probably derived from German schmuck (jewel); that is to say, "the family jewel.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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Some of these “conservative” gay bashers should be fitted for bras, given their own very unmasculine bodies and pendulous he-boobies.
Think Progress » Gates to stop military from discharging gay troops who are outed by ‘third parties or jilted partners.’
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Bare white walls, chrome legged sofas, black leather - really masculine and clinical.
Painting Inspired Dress # 1
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Another: The aged masculine is marked down to an even some-more pitiable figure, even by a son who loves him.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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The long sustained deception has been dropped," says a paragraphist, "and the young man who assumed the name of 'Madame Zoyara' is now to be seen in correct masculine attire.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
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Sometimes, even its indeclinable adjectives had their cases: nominative singular masculine wise and accusative feminine plural wise, etc.
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She looks rather masculine in that suit.
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The French and Spanish already call their ships masculine and the Dutch and Germans consider them neuter.
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From a very early age, lower-working-class boys engage in rough, exclusively masculine forms of play, free of adult supervision.
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She was very mannish, and what we were taught was that those masculine traits were evil - and that her evil was somehow infectious.
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We plunked quarter after quarter into a pool table as we spied on our masculine counterparts.
Myrtle Beach Daze
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a masculine cadence
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This Hulk exhibits other traits rarely associated with the masculine he-men of the comic book/action genre.
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2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window
Notes
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A cet égard, on distingue génériquement les voix en deux classes, sçavoir; voix aiguës ou féminines, & voix graves ou masculines, & l'on a trouvé que la différence générale des unes & des autres, étoit à-peu-près d'une octave, ce qui fait que les voix aiguës chantent réellement à l'octave des voix graves, quand elles paroissent chanter à leur unisson.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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The cross represents the masculine side of his face, the nought represents the feminine side.
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Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.
Bedlam
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For Poe, the masculine qualities are necessary for good criticism and, indeed, for good patriotism.
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However, the Third World feminism politics that often focuses on theenvironmentas one of the many reasons for their inequalities, is often forgotten in these types of debates, arguably because it is too close to hard-core and ‘masculine’ types of politics that many don’t want to be represented as coming ‘natural’ to women.
Environment – a political area women are represented well in. But for the right reasons? « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
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There is something very masculine about this approach and there's a seriousness to it that will appeal to men.
Times, Sunday Times
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Masculine desperation is rapidly evolving into the vogue cinematic theme of the new millennium.
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Being a woman in a masculine world has helped my career.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was handsome and strong, and very masculine.
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Custom and language associate the former characteristics with the feminine, the latter, with the masculine.
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Mr. Cooper, luckily, is well qualified to keep such comic material within range of masculine bearability.
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He was a member of the rowing club and then got a career in the very masculine world of investment banking.
The Sun
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The bed was very masculine, covered in dark sheets and white blankets.
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They were written in a highly patriarchal society where masculine domination was the norm.
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Of course feminine strength, feminine power across gender isn't accorded value in the way that masculine strength and power are valorized.
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In theatre women started to interpret the traditional roles of masculine characters - from Faust to Hamlet.
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When he talks I hate his unmasculine voice.
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French Nation has contributed so much to civilization, and so much in art, beauty, and in great qualities, it is our duty to stand by France, and to prevent her being crushed by the oversexed, that is to say, overmasculine, country of Germany.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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It concerns the characteristics that a society or group attributes to the masculine or the feminine.
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Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume.
The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
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So, certainly ‘traditional definitions’ of masculine and feminine need to be re-evaluated because they are based on a faulty understanding of an illusory division amongst contraries.
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There is something very masculine about this approach and there's a seriousness to it that will appeal to men.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her belly and hips were fatless and firm, but even so, she seemed bulky and almost masculine in her carriage.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess.
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At least he hadn't corrected my use of the masculine honorific.
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A college class was discussing the fact that nouns in some foreign languages are either of masculine or feminine gender.
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Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies.
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She was not a typical middle-class girl in expensive clothes who idolized masculine negritude, but an ill-nourished, disturbed young woman who would have gone "for anyone sexy who offered her a cult, even if he'd been as white as milk.
The Lessons of the Master
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She was full six feet high, wore a man's great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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In this case, the aggressive undertaking on the part of the United States is emboldened by its masculine qualities--which in turn are emboldened by the emasculation of the rest of the world.
David Isenberg: The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors
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Previous female superheroes have been masculine or androgynous cyphers played by a female leads in manga-like, sexless action sequences that reduce them almost to mindless puppets.
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The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical.
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As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop.
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It is unfortunate that the gender of the noun, being masculine, is confused with the intent of the word, which is neutral.
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As Warwick passed the door that led from the garden, he brushed by a young man, the baudekin stripes of whose vest announced his relationship to the king, and who, though far less majestic than Edward, possessed sufficient of family likeness to pass for a very handsome and comely person; but his countenance wanted the open and fearless expression which gave that of the king so masculine and heroic a character.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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The Duke's study was very masculine, with deep red wall-covering and dark oak shelving.
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Loving descriptions of the British countryside share space with a prolonged celebration of masculine companionship.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you want something supermasculine and just a bit trendy, the Continental Supersports is for you.
Dueling Bentleys: Supersports vs. Speed
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But you were quickly beguiled by the ‘masculine’ voice of the cello.
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Just as they were about to sit a deep, masculine voice called out to Emily.
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The Masculine of either the Adjective or the Participle is freely used in any Case and in any construction.
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"Many men are genuinely proud of their culinary skill and see nothing undignified or unmasculine in being able to turn out a batch of fluffy biscuits."
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_neuter_ means _neither; _ from which it follows, that neuter gender implies neither gender; that is, neither masculine nor feminine.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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All she could smell was the clean masculine scent of Guido's skin.
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There was almost always a woman with an angelic voice on his songs, to balance out his own rough masculine sound.
Times, Sunday Times
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An excessive interest in high academic achievement or a fondness for art or music are viewed by many young men as unmasculine.
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To do this they must address the men in their lives in order to accept the masculine in themselves.
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Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, being sort of oblivious to everything less masculine than fantasy football and gatling guns, I misread the second sentence to mean that she was talking about “this curse of ours” being something like being a vampire.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Becca’s Review Forum
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I'm a masculine bio female, boyishly butch, transmasculine - some might call me a FTM [female to male], but I'm not totally transitioned, though I'm on a moderate dose of T [testosterone], and I'm comfortable with my body as is.
Victoria Rosner: A Walk on the Wilde Side
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They're nice curtains, but I'd prefer something a little more masculine.
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I noticed soft lines, circles, vesicae, and even vines! along with the more masculine hard lines, rectangles, and spears *rolls eyes*.
Tourist on Earth | Mind on Fire
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When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Some of Rick's swishier friends were actually bisexual and some of the hyper-masculine ones were strictly men-only.
The Emerald Triangle
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It will be observed that the masculine of the adjective is declined exactly like a masculine noun of the second declension, the feminine exactly like a feminine noun of the first declension, and the neuter exactly like a neuter noun of the second declension.
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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Amen -- Amen!" came the deep chorus from the bank, the high, plaintive women's voices undertoned by the masculine bass.
Judith of the Cumberlands
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He is certainly an avuncular figure, more paternal than patriarchal, yet even his faults and foibles are masculine in character.
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In the chair on the other side of me is a woman with a dark, masculine face.
Times, Sunday Times
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For my part I want when I go to my home -- when I turn from the arena where man contends with man for what we call the prizes of this paltry world -- I want to go back, not to be received in the masculine embrace of some female ward politician, but to the earnest, loving look and touch of a true woman.
Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887
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Like so much of importance in the masculine culture of the time, it was left unsaid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tous ces diapasons différens réunis forment une étendue générale d'à-peu-près trois octaves qu'on a divisées en quatre parties, dont trois appellées haute-contre, taille & basse appartiennent aux voix masculines, & la quatrieme seulement qu'on appelle dessus est assignée aux voix aiguës, sur quoi se trouvent plusieurs remarques à faire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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This gendered argument is bolstered by the verse in Exodus 13: 9 which refers to tefillin as “a sign on your hand” where the masculine pronominal suffix “your hand” (yadekha) is used to exclude women.
Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female.
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She would accentuate the feminine so as to inflame the masculine in him.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Jan and Anna remain relatively two-dimensional characters because this novel is an absorbed study of the masculine mind.
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It seems to me we are in danger of reifying as "masculine" the very qualities that mose of us also deem patriarchal.
All The Oligarch Alumni News That Fits, We Print
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Page 103. 3. vieilles gens: attributive adjectives are generally _feminine_ when preceding and _masculine_ when following _gens_.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
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Also in the rural areas, some of the more traditional machismo, an aggressively strong masculine character associated with patriarchy, prevailed.
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He thought they were absolutely horrific: masculine and aggressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
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With the masculine fruitless gene, females instinctiely lunge to the exclusion of their usual maneuvers.
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And one made knottier by the idea that some foods are masculine (hamburgers, steak), while others (yoghurt, quiche) are strictly for girls.
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In the original, the men were cold and sinister; in the new version, they're nebbishes who need to be constantly drilled in masculine prerogatives by the head of the Men's Association.
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He thought they were absolutely horrific: masculine and aggressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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IWC Schaffhausen has produced only a hand full of women's watches but the brand's unabashedly masculine output has been seen on female wrists lately, including those of Cate Blanchett and Elle Macpherson.
An Icon That Withstands the Test of Time
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Trans as an adjective: I do not refer to myself as a transwoman for the same reason given by Lisa Harney in her comment on Cedar’s post Put the Goddamn Space in: “transwoman” “transfeminism” “transmasculine” etc (language politics #1):
Enough.
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He sees puffed-out chests as lads square off to prove who's more masculine.
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As historian Erica Doss has shown, in the 1960s the Black Panther leadership, heirs no less to this legacy than the Diggers, drew on it to create an image of masculine aggression and streetwise militance in their dress, art, and political culture ....
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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In the chair on the other side of me is a woman with a dark, masculine face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Falling in love with Maria, he comes to question rigid definitions of masculine and feminine.
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And this, of course, has increased the number of feminist and gender-progressive bois and transmasculine people I know.
Two Critiques Of Ariel Levy’s Writing About Bois
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Choosing one, he stepped inside a little room almost militarily neat, and masculine in aura.
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Perhaps we can get women back into following good sense regarding clothing, and once again inspire the masculine men to paint pictures of them for all time, paintings that future generations would not be ashamed to see.
The Beautiful, Soft, Flowing, Modest, Clothing Depicted in the Art of Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens (1823-1906)
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It demands huge energy and masculine strength, and that's how it was written.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore, Irigaray uses this representation of the body to specify a feminine language which is plural, polyvalent, and irreducible to a masculine language based on restrictive notions of unity and identity.
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The novel's plot describes the decimation of masculine culture necessary for women to create a non-patriarchal utopian society.
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No blabbermouths in this corner of Biot; just books. le potin (poh-tehn) noun, masculine
French Word-A-Day:
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In doing so, with a My Dinner with Andre scene intercut between the mystical experience of golf, she visually penetrated into the mystical source of knowledge where the inner marriage of masculine and feminine is achieved by a connection to the 'inner body.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld: The True Story Behind Golf in the Kingdom
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The Soltenites 'forefathers had still believed in Arkon's pantheon of gods many millennia before but now the Soltenites were immersed in demonism and paid homage to hideous spirit ogres, considering them to be deities worthy of worship-and all such demonic gods were without exception of the masculine gender.
Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York
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From this parallel it is to be seen that the development of consciousness that corresponds to matriarchy must little by little be released by the archetypal masculine.
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Cloak's introduction to womenswear has revealed the masculine side to women's personalities.
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I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail.
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The investigators found that men typically want women's faces to have feminine shape and feminine reflectance (such as plump lips and wide eyes), while women typically want men's faces to have masculine reflectance (such as swarthier skin) but a feminine shape.
What makes a face appealing to the opposite sex?
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I am addicted to masculine trench coats and wear them all the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The French word for 'sun' is masculine - 'le soleil', but the German word is feminine - 'die Sonne'.
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Jill McCall, brand manager at Cadbury, is careful to point out the difference between the indulgent, feminine bars (Flake, Galaxy) and the masculine "hunger bars" (Boost, Snickers), which are nut-filled and huge, and fill you up rather than provide a girlish "treat", thereby creating markets within markets.
The truth about men, women and food
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And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity.
I. Book I
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To me what's interesting is the masculine and the feminine, the salty and the sweet.
Times, Sunday Times
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It must be part of an inclusive approach to discussing a new history, which integrates the feminine with the masculine.
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The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical.
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If the Doppelgänger is indeed gendered male, then it frequently embodies gender trouble for the masculine subject.
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Today, learn the French word "feuilleton", and follow a less dramatic "soap" (feuillotte? savonette?) in today's column. feuilleton (fuhy-tohn) noun, masculine serial (program), soap opera
Feuilleton - French Word-A-Day
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These are very attractive and masculine qualities.
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Creativity is an outcome of our establishing an inner dialogue within the masculine and feminine which reside within us all.
Phoenix From the Flame
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The masculine men were the least supportive, responsive or humane.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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The novella is about masculine middle-age, with Victorian males hurrying into their enclaves or laboratories to escape all kinds of ever-present threats, such as the new woman.
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The name Brahm is the masculine Sanskrit form corresponding to the neuter Brahman or Brahma - the Absolute on which the whole universe is based.
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This thing of there being only one way of being - in your face, aggressive and masculine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result seems very much a mix of the two genders, with the emphasis on the masculine.
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A fine figure of a man, he radiates masculine self-assurance, a quality that interested the Queen greatly.
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She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
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The ceremony is exclusively masculine.
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In every age, in every clime, she is dear, at any rate to the masculine soul, this soft, tear-blenched, blonde, ill-used thing.
Twilight in Italy
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His menswear pieces, to the last one, were well-built, sturdy designs that were stylishly masculine.
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As is well known, nouns in German are assigned to one of three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter.
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This thing of there being only one way of being - in your face, aggressive and masculine.
Times, Sunday Times
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For reasons I shall explain on page 106, such adrenal tumors may bring on sexual precocity in children, or a marked increase in masculine characteristics in women, the latter condition being known as virilism ( "man" L).
The Human Brain
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Sure, my hair may have been tucked under my hat but even so, my features weren't completely masculine!
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Hunting was a typically masculine occupation.
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It was very dark, very masculine: antique European furniture, Persian rugs.
COLDHEART CANYON
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In most languages adjectives have slightly different spellings for masculine and feminine.
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The Province will run full colour parliamentary pull-outs with puns in the headlines, while gruff white dudes talk about global politics in hyper-masculine voices.
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I don't think anyone has ever solved what is the deep feminine and the deep masculine.
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In most languages adjectives have slightly different spellings for masculine and feminine.
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The Duke's study was very masculine, with deep red wall-covering and dark oak shelving.
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The core of it, "clint" is very western and masculine--almost cowboy in its roots--which may have worked for Bill but plays against Hillary's female candidate narrative.
Archive 2008-03-01
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It is a charming place, and my only regret is that a masculine woman with blazer and upturned shirt collars prevented me from going before.
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He is a very masculine person, except for this one feminine quality, for, if I may say it without ungallantry, there is a legend that no woman has ever understood the tariff.
The Gentleman from Indiana
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The Sexiest Masculine Perfume: I will say Yatagan only because well I've worn it a lot lately and though I have not been keeping track, I suspect it perhaps coincidentally has been worn on more nights that led to 'amore' than other scents.
Archive 2008-02-01
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The only noun inflexion preserved in Modern English is the possessive ending ‘s’ which is a survival of the common Germanic masculine singular genitive case ending.
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Yet so inordinate is the sex-distinction of the human race that the whole field of human progress has been considered a masculine prerogative.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
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The bumbag and shades are beyond cool, and the slouchy masculine tailoring is stylishly grown-up.
The Sun
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Rather, at the basic level of categorization, the principal contrast is between masculine and feminine.
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They are also quite keen on marijuana, feel most masculine during sport and are least inclined to admire Nigel Mansell.
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Sainte Céciliens and the art of conviviality. convive (kon-veev) noun, masculine and feminine guest (at table), fellow diner
French Word-A-Day:
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Certainly, the rhymthic structures are quadruple and duple (with the exception of "Hitler In My Heart" where we are given 5's and 7's), but within those thoroughly square and masculine rhythms, there is a litheness, a suppleness, a winding and breathing, a certain fluidity that is thoroughly feminine.
Antony and the Johnsons--Quintessentially Queer Music
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Russell and Emerson kept trying to interrupt my orderly exposition, but I was in no mood for displays of masculine illogic.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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He says the characters he plays may seem hypermasculine, but it is their hidden insecurity that draws him to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so the Duke, satirically amused at the obvious embarrassment of the other "notabilities" assembled, did nothing whatsoever to relieve or to lighten the conversation, which remained so utterly dull and inane that Alwyn, who had been compelled, for politeness 'sake, to appear interested in the account of a bicycle race detailed to him by a very masculine looking lady-doctor whose seat at table was next his own, began to feel a little weary, and to wonder dismally how long this "feast of reason and flow of soul" was going to last.
Ardath
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The major dissimilitude in this description is between highly conventional notions of essential masculine and feminine attributes.
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This time she did get an answer, although the voice was firm and masculine.
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It isn't possible!" interrupted Don Ramon excitedly, in mingled horror of the masculinely rampant Mrs. Markham and admiration of the fascinatingly feminine Mrs. Brimmer; "a lady cannot be an orator -- a haranguer of men!
The Crusade of the Excelsior
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It may be necessary to explain to the uninitiated reader that the terms "he" and "she" are indifferently used at sea, in reference to craft, but when the masculine pronoun is applied it is understood to refer more especially to the _commanding officer_ of the vessel; while the pronoun "she" refers to the _vessel herself_.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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Did living so long in a masculine-dominated household help give rise to your blogging persona, which is far more 'ballsy' than most female bloggers?
Mother-in-Law in the White House.
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Conservative without being reactionary, dependable without being boring, masculine without being aggressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their legwear is tailored to male body proportions, including a fly opening to eliminate any question of this being a truly masculine alternative.
Would You Wear Mantyhose?
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Keeley used to work as a "newspaperman," an eminently masculine synonym for "journalist" in the Hollywood lexicon.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Pollack said many fathers are torn over gender-role issues, supporting the concept of less rigid stereotypes yet worried that their sons might be ostracized if they partake in activities viewed by their peers as unmasculine: We still socialize boys to follow their more aggressive side rather than their more thoughtful and caring side.
Gender stereotypes easing more for girls than boys
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To be sure, it may be the case, in a gender language, that male and female persons will be designated by nouns of masculine and feminine gender, respectively.
