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Sentence Examples The son of an English tenant farmer, he received a good education and little else in the Lincolnshire community where he grew to manhood. In his early days Paddy was a kind and quiet boy and as he grew into manhood he didn't change. Hymer is a young Swedish Viking in his early manhood and the heir to a village chief. His continued success has allowed him to grow into manhood with a healthy sense of self, and a record label called Audio Research. True manhood involved having a strong manly character exemplified by self-control and self-restraint. In the 1380s, as he grew to manhood, his influence on affairs gradually increased. Masculinity and manhood have nothing to do with whom you sleep with or whom you love. His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began. These sports serve to define dominant masculinity, connecting manhood with violence and competitiveness and often marginalising girls and women. Their coach questions everything from their heart to their courage to their brains to their manhood to their commitment. The court made every effort to actively link men to their sexual abilities by publicizing these proofs of manhood. Confronting ghostly apparitions of Annabel, he is overwhelmed by guilt for forcing her to have children to prove his manhood. No critique of American culture and manhood is complete without a discussion of athletics and the color line that long pervaded American sports. His is an elusive quest for self despite prescriptive notions of manhood and sexual identity. What he learned and experienced during his adolescence and early manhood could scarcely be described by Goethe's terms Lehrjahre or Wanderjahre. When a boy is sexually abused he suffers an assault on his body, his developing personality and on his manhood. We're living in an era of greatly diminished expectations for heroes and further diminished standards for manhood among mere mortals. For a man like him, a daredevil skier and helicopter pilot, being mayor would also be a supreme test of manhood. Now even at that tender age, I must have has a pretty strong sense of my manhood, and was pretty much unconsolable for a good 10 minutes. Henry has to prove his manhood by juggling a wife and a full-time mistress. Show More Sentences Rather than holding their manhood cheap, they step forward to share in the glory. I could tell you that at least one person would not hold his manhood cheap and that he still has the moustaches to prove it. Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood. To cure my impotence, Dr. Wickes experimented with a lot of elixirs and potions distilled from the manhood of prized Andalusian bulls. We believed that there are many ways to be a boy, and we knew as well that manhood should be dense with possibilities and potential. A virtual initiation rite in postwar Italy, this is Domenico's chance to yoke himself to secure, predictable manhood. After a sickly childhood, he entered manhood with uncommon zest and ambition. Historians, in other words, need to apprehend and to understand the rough as well as the respectable manhood of American workers. He describes their thoughts as giantlike and godlike, stressing the manhood he sees in simply thinking rather than doing. The reformers were very divided in their aims, which ranged from modest franchise reform to universal manhood suffrage. Some groups practice circumcision of boys aged ten to twelve to mark their passage into manhood. This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely. At the same stage of his life, as soon as he attains manhood, Labda's son also goes off to consult the Delphic oracle. Kip Rollins is a champion surfer who now does body-piercing and Indian sun dance rituals, rituals for initiation into manhood. He was later canonised by the church, and became the symbol of manhood, strong will, and steadfastness in the face of ordeal. In initiating this exchange with his mother, Henry is likely to have been making a statement about his own autonomy and transition into manhood. These writers were suspicious of the enervating effects of modernity, and contrasted Australian virility with the dulled manhood of Europe. They were the first of several million ordinary people who would perform the modern version of an ancient Vanuatuan manhood ritual. His voice was just changing from its higher tones of youth to the deeper ones of his manhood. Danger, thrills, spills, and rebellion are all part of being a boy growing into manhood. Show More Sentences All Laotian men are expected to become monks, usually in early manhood, before marriage. He wore a red beard, just changed from the down of youth to the bristliness of manhood, and as yet unshaven. He wasn't in the least handsome, but seemed the figure of manhood to some of the younger palace brats. Complications arise when their manhood is questioned by their better halves for two very different reasons. The thing that made him stand out to her was how he changed in each of her dreams, growing and maturing from adolescence to manhood. To the same degree that Hughes defines manhood through compassion, Du Bois defines manhood through intellectual curiosity. His early manhood was partly devoted to using the second to overcome the first. Did they think they were proving their manhood by doing this? Even if you don't believe in the cause yourself, you have to admit that this is the sort of thing that makes gentlemen safe abed hold their manhood cheap. From Elias Hall's point of view, his wife's ability to obtain a divorce and alimony threatened his authority as a husband and his independent manhood. These are people who live and die, and measure their status, self-worth, and manhood by the size of their bank accounts. The genocide, dehumanisation of the people through forced labour, expropriation of land and appropriation of cattle all contributed to the redefinition of manhood. It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood. They were roundly subjected to insults, smutty comments and had a multitude of aspersions cast about their manhood for the duration of their walk around the town. All priests and mages felt this charge upon attaining full manhood. Vogue Bar Mitzvah Dance Back in 1992, Shaun Sperling vogued his way to manhood. And Moore, perhaps more than a little challenged by his own insecurities, has made a film that is profoundly invested in manhood, masculinity, machismo. Yes, he is in fact saying that a woman seeing his manhood is like being blessed by the Holy Ghost. As my steep decline into grumpy old manhood gathers pace, I realise I no longer know how to manage even the simplest of contemporary transactions. It's a coming of age story where we see the different stages of manhood. Show More Sentences For here is the real conflict by which we move into manhood and maturity. William had no siblings or friends to comfort him as he grew to manhood. So he both keeps his one love and loses those he has grown to manhood among, or he loses the one good thing in his life to keep all the things that he has always known. Their eldest son is reaching manhood, and must be about my age. She says that she has truly found a partner in life with Glenn, who is secure in his manhood, even when people make the mistake of calling him Mr. Greenwood. Entering Nunnington Hall is like stepping back to the heyday of the British Empire when English gentlemen proved their manhood by shooting game and fighting in wars. In certain African tribes, one had to slay a lion to prove one's manhood. The cops were itching for a fight, and to prove their manhood. Given the fact that manhood is associated with power, and being powerless is seen as unmanly, violence becomes a means to prove otherwise to others and oneself. The negative images against which manhood has been constructed, such as womanhood, boyhood, dependency, slavery, and racial and class difference, will be examined. He kneed me from behind, getting the more sensitive part of my manhood. I have confessed myself a temerarious theologian, and in that passage from boyhood to manhood I ranged widely in my search for some permanently satisfying Truth. Was there a brief window where I relished it, where it proved something about the passage of teenager-hood to manhood? Indeed, one of the most fascinating aspects of the story is watching the male characters struggle with the meaning of manhood. Apparently many posted images of themselves as well, as if the little girl would find their manhood irresistible. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn't take all that much manhood. While this may not appear to be a problem to us, the separation of Christ's manhood from his deity is actually a grave heresy called Nestorianism. Viewed this way, the railroad brotherhoods ' language of temperance and respectable manhood was as much intended for public consumption as it was the uplift of railwaymen. While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority. As will be shown below, the castrate, the non-man, played an important role in the ordinary figuring of masculinity and manhood in the Spanish village. Show More Sentences Lynching was instituted to crush the manhood of the enfranchised black. The Assembly voted to suspend the monarchy and convoke a new body elected by manhood suffrage, the Convention, to draw up a republican constitution for the country. In the prime of manhood at 43, Simon runs a company closing in on half a billion dollars in revenues, with a market cap twice that, up from next to nothing eight years ago. Our boys in WWII had a whole lot more Simon pure manhood than that one-nut pervert and his goose-stepping loony gooneys. In some incidental way he beheard him of the poor widow's difficulty, and at once the manhood in him asserted itself. They refocused themselves to a point where they could get back their peoplehood, their humanhood, their manhood and their womanhood. John IV Comyn grew to manhood in England, not returning to Scotland until 1314, when he was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn. The most radical elements proposed universal manhood suffrage and the reorganisation of parliamentary constituencies. Riding Misanthropy was test of manhood enough for Tim. What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers? He grinned sicklily, turning away his head. She had got his manhood, but Lord, what did he care! Thus, keeping things to oneself and being unexpressive was an especially lauded aspect of manhood. The Reform League campaigned for manhood suffrage in the 1860s, and included former Chartists amongst its ranks. In the Idylls, Arthur became a symbol of ideal manhood who ultimately failed, through human weakness, to establish a perfect kingdom on earth. His sons were now growing to manhood and he encouraged them to embark on his own profession. His heir was Nero, son of Agrippina and her former husband, since Claudius' son Britannicus had not reached manhood upon his father's death. Each contender had an eye-watering combination of super-small posing pouches and masking tape to hide their manhood. Boar hunting became particularly popular among the young nobility during the 3rd century BC as preparation for manhood and battle. He also spends time socialising with the young boys, who are often his sons or close relatives, advising them on the expectations of growing up and manhood. He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage? As the infancy of Rome was venust, so was its manhood notably strenuous. Show More Sentences Eke, gentle heart, and manhood that ye had, And that ye had, as me thought, in despite Every thing that souned into bad, As rudeness, and peoplish appetite. When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband's objections by challenging his manhood and successfully persuades him to kill the king that very night. The khanjar, a traditional Omani, J shaped dagger is symbol of manhood and pride among Omani men and is worn along their leather belts over their dishdasha. My Little Pony is redefining manhood and that deserves a brohoof. It was not until 1867 that urban working men were admitted to the franchise under the Reform Act 1867, and not until 1918 that full manhood suffrage was achieved. But in the Daniels and Sandy missionary effort to carefully unpack and unclutter the complexities of black manhood, they compile a book that begs for subtlety. Examples from Classical Literature It is from the hypogastric plexus and the sacral ganglion that the dark forces of manhood and womanhood sparkle. He was not only sensitive, he was just come to the passion and impressionability of full-blooded young manhood. They are held with the purpose of inducting boys into the privileges of manhood and into the full life of the group. You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood. Its fresh air and porridge you need, not giggling jennies, who degrade your manhood. John N. Thompson grew to manhood in the Badger State, and his education was that afforded by its public schools. For they also must strive to attain swaraj as the only means of developing their manhood. Half-conscious, aimless and wandering, he lived back in his life to his early manhood on Niihau. As for the ablative absolute, its reconstruction and regeneration have been the inspiring principle of my studious manhood. He has the soul of a merchant tailor, actually, but not the tailor's manhood. His manhood, or rather his maleness, rose powerfully in him, in a sort of mastery. And he had been devoting the years of his manhood to seeking just such a secret. Let us pray for unction, which is the marrowfat of humor, and for humility, which is the badge of manhood. In this teaching, and marvelling ever at its beauty, Edward grew to manhood. They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race. The man who marries a woman for her money is a white slave, a bond servant, a travesty on manhood. Josiah had been defeated and slain at Megiddo in the prime of his manhood, at the age of thirty-nine. The experienced would have recognized in him the youth who merges into manhood. All through his youth and his early manhood he was nerving himself for the conflict. In the dryest, the largest, the best of them there is everything to debase the manhood and nauseate the soul. Show More Sentences Daily he met with examples of shamefully degraded manhood, of pitiful want, and of unhelped suffering. In early manhood Coleridge planned a pantisocracy where all the virtues were to thrive. She did her best, all unknowingly, bless her, to kill the last vestige of manhood in me. Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. A woman who wins golf or hockey-matches may be said therefore to energise her muscles with the potential manhood of possible sons. It is a disease that undermines the moral fiber and manhood of any one it touches. In his unsubtle makeup the measure of his devotion was as great as the measure of his unspoiled manhood. She had no feeling other than a great, unvoiced joy in the splendid manhood of it all. When the senses are robbed of their fineness, youth grows blas, mature manhood is ennuied, life is empty. You were changing from boyhood into manhood, and you were changing without any authority over you. He was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, big and well-muscled, with a broad, flat back and soldierly carriage. France has outgrown the baby-cloaths of Count and Duke, and has breeched itself in manhood. When he grew to manhood he became first flutist in the Baltimore orchestra. They became to their pupils ideals of manhood worthy to be patterned after. Yet, I repeat, man is potentially a man, however far he may be from actual manhood. A boy emerging into manhood leaves his petasos and strigil and chlamys to Hermes, the god of games. I am that atlantes who watched over him in childhood, and as he grew to manhood he was ever the first in all deeds of chivalry. The teacher must bring the world-view to the class if he believes that world service is God's thought for manhood. But this very individuality and peculiarity can only be founded on the broadest truths of the godhood and the manhood. It was a prolongation of the patria potestas up to the period of bare physical manhood. Show More Sentences The labours of the twenty prime years of his manhood have been copiously bewailed. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. He should reverence his manhood, even as he expected her to 28 reverence her womanhood. No sign of the times more plainly discovered the helotism to which the Restoration had condemned the young manhood of the epoch. Then as the sober days of manhood came, and Landy witnessed the finish of the improvident and foolish, he began to save and skimp. Upon approaching manhood Snead was put to the cooper's trade, which he learned in five years. The trap was not the inadequacy of the man But the impossibleness of the definition of manhood. She saw him and recognized him as her son Arcas, grown to manhood. Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing in his manhood. I waded through the mud, shoving the skiff before me and yammering the chant of my manhood to the world. So claus grew to manhood, increasing each day in knowledge and in wisdom. Bertuccio the corsican had saved the child and reared it to manhood. He had liked him even less as he grew into magnificent Cro-Magnon manhood. But even in early manhood he never sought to deceive himself. It is the dethronement of will and the deposition of manhood. By donning it again he would at least wear mourning for his manhood. Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. Down the avenue came boastfully sauntering a lad of sixteen years, although the chronic sneer of an ideal manhood already sat upon his lips. Thoughts of his coming manhood passed and he was content to be a boy with a boy's impulses. Show More Sentences Time, however, overgrew this softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh it still lay at the core. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. But after that scurrilous story about David Cameron misusing his manhood at a snooty university dinner, it was bound to happen. Some of his grandchildren are almost grown to manhood and womanhood. Was he a better man in the composite, in the grand total of manhood? The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. Surrounded by all this Maori opulence, kiwi grew to manhood. Older members of the Sultanic family dominated him through his youth and into his early manhood. For the lower house, which has 46 members, there is manhood suffrage. Being taken for a man, brought him back his manhood for a moment. Then Wingrave stopped short for he felt stirring within him all the long repressed madness of his unlived manhood. The disciple's maturest manhood is only the perfection of his childhood. But for thee I should have passed away, unknowing the glory of manhood. It is your manhood, not your money, that is needful for success. Nevil became a wretched, unkempt type of manhood in comparison. Seth's new-found courage and manhood had vanished at the thought. In the heart and soul of every son of woman lies the germ of manhood and honor. In the quaint words of Vaughan, it was manhood with a female eye. Besides, it seemed to him that the society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. Her sweet, proud face was near him once again, overtopping his manhood. Show More Sentences On the rhodesian side were other grand specimens of British manhood. And Fatty, alias Percival Delaney, a grotesque of manhood, put his bulgy hand to his puffed lips and kissed audibly into the starry vault of the sky. I could not acknowledge the paternity to the world, but I gave him the best of educations, and since he came to manhood I have kept him near my person. Throwing his leg over the saddle, he dismounted, with a determination to advance and seize his treacherous companion, trusting the result to his own manhood. After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, businesslike gentleman who came here today. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. If a grandly gifted man may drag his pride and his manhood in the dirt for bread rather than starve with the nobility that is in him untainted, the excuse is a valid one. He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood. And yet with all this rugged pride of manhood and self-help, was there ever soul more tenderly affectionate, loyally submissive to what was really higher than he? As the rights of hospitality were, however, considered sacred among them, this little departure from the dignity of manhood excited no audible comment. Heyward was also nigh, supporting himself against a tree, and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Find more words! 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