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Virility See also Beauty, Masculine; Brawniness. Fury, Sergeant archetypal he-man. [Comics: “Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos” in Horn, 607–608]
a “natchal man” from Black River country. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 428] Hemingway’s hero assumes manhood by assertive act. [Am. Lit.: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Magill IV, 1130–1133] cigarette advertising campaign established new symbol of virility. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.] male generative power personified. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 27, 224] symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] symbol of maleness. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 59–60] in poems by T. S. Eliot, symbolizes the sensual, brutal, and materialistic 20th-century man. [Br. Poetry, Benét, 978] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Ward is most successful in female portraiture, her own mind and culture have an unmistakable virility and grasp and scientific firmness. It was fresh--the smoke-curing had just begun--and, save for the closed eyes, all the sullen handsomeness and animal virility of the boy, as Joan had known it, was still to be seen in the monstrous thing that twisted and dangled in the eddying smoke. Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. |
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