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How to use the word masculine in a Sentence?

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I really love Warrior. It’s the perfect masculine yet feminine fragrance, that’s subtle but notable, i have also collected some really beautiful scents by Tom Ford. My favorite is Santal Blush, I’ve worn it forever.

Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Businesses must make a concerted effort to hire and promote women who may or may not be up to par with their male counterparts, in addition, the chemistry of having women in a masculine environment may reduce business cohesiveness and productivity from what it might have been otherwise( this is especially true of the military, although by no means limited to it). Needless to say all these things subtract from a team's effort to produce efficiently.

John Gibbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're seeing gendered and racialized images and messages from both men and women candidates, some of the things we're watching in this regard are efforts to align with masculine preferences of a Trump base of Republicans.

Kelly Dittmar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My portraits have a neutral appearance to them. Depending on the theme, achieving the appropriate balance is always an obstacle. Proportions, like everything else, require meticulous measurement. That is, how masculine, emotional, and expressive they may come across and were meant to be - as if working in a science lab.

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic, they want to define the traditional masculine virtues -- things like courage and independence and assertiveness -- as a danger to society.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We often find that male coaches continue to use homophobic language and teach conformity to this tough masculine athlete identity that doesn't really exist.

Erik Denison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To solve this problem, it needs to start with the coaches, in particular, challenging language and, most importantly, not using that language or behavior themselves, we often find that male coaches continue to use homophobic language and teach conformity to this tough masculine athlete identity that doesn't really exist.

Erik Denison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Meghan Markle really wanted to be provocative and challenge people's views, she would push back on men who abandon their wives, partners, and children and reject the destructive narrative that tells boys and young men that theirnatural behaviors are inappropriate, toxic, dangerous, and in need of reform, markle thinks she's produced something new, but she's done nothing original or even interesting. Masculine behaviors in boys and young men and traditional fatherhood aren't the problem. What is a problem in this society ischildren growing up without fathers and boys being told they are inherently bad or damaged.

Julie Gunlock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The worst [about women's football] is never said officially. It is whispered. You hear it as a joke. Women should not play football at all, it is too masculine for their bodies is number one on the list. I usually chop back with that if it is masculinity you want, then go play American football. Leave [soccer] football to the women.

Susan Shalabi

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Around the early 19th century, men took on this special role as providers and protectors, and with that came a whole ideology. Men began to embrace a masculine identity that was based on not doing women's work, women also began to embrace a new identity, unheard of in colonial days : We are the family expert. We know how to raise kids. We know how to change diapers. Institutions began to be organized around this idea.

Stephanie Coontz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We want to explore that idea further, it's a kind of a gender neutral range, which depending on how it's worn can be either very masculine or very feminine and we feel that's a very modern way forward.

Peter Pilotto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I can't think of anything that makes me feel more masculine than when I take a risk and succeed.

Roosh Valizadeh

added by Mattd6422
4 years ago

I've been surprised by the amount of support that this has gotten from male and masculine-presenting students, my guy friends have sent pictures to me in leggings. People in classes have said,' Look at all of the guys in my class wearing leggings today.'.

Anne Jarrett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I've never apologized for being a woman, for being gay, for being kind of butch, masculine of center. I am into it. Like, I like who I am, i think sometimes that has been challenging for folks.

Cameron Esposito

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I found that many of the fantasies people tend to stereotype as being as masculine, like threesomes, and feminine, like emotional fulfillment, were actually things that a majority of men and women alike were fantasizing about.

Justin Lehmiller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What I quickly found embarrassing is the contradiction between the bottom-up approach that was promised and sold to the French, and the reality, it's democratic centralism, the Soviet way. Completely vertical. And also very masculine.

Corinne Lepage

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's about mobility. Girls who act like boys are moving up the social ladder. Boys who are acting like anything but masculine are moving down and risk losing their status.

Michael Kimmel

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Cutting the hair of those arrested to ‘make them masculine’ and forcing them to dress like men are forms of public shaming and amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Aceh Police

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think every woman is a strong woman. I think that in the past, we've connected strength, leadership, ambition, power, as masculine traits.

Jessica Chastain

Found on CNN
7 years ago

These are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This statement is extremely disgusting and blatantly homophobic, these are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it's because we're at a time socially (when) people are afraid that boys will be gay or they will be the next Caitlyn Jenner if they are not traditionally masculine, which of course that's fine if they are, but that's not fine with everyone and that seems to be a fear.

Courtney Hartman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our gun culture is very heavily masculine, it is seen as manly to be identified with guns.

Deniese Kennedy-Kollar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We really differ from brands that are more technical and masculine, our message is more about the design and craftsmanship. The Asian market has been very responsive to our feminine designs, but we don't differentiate the collection according to geography, we're never opportunistic.

Arpels CEO Nicolas Bos

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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