What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence. |
There's nothing I hate more than a virile guy who is an effective patient listener. |
The men's dorms are decorated in virile earth tones and the rugged wood and tweedy furniture gives you the feeling of being in a hunting lodge. |
He vainly affects a George Raft hairdo and would-be virile gestures that go soft before they are half over. |
Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart provide a virile, rough hewn soundtrack that gives the film an aural authority it barely deserves. |
He deconstructs myths of the tough virile man, laying his anxieties bare on the floor. |