Sentences with phrase «against machismo»

The characters in The Realm of Hungry Spirits, while permanently connected to one another, battle tooth and nail over just about everything: women against machismo, family against family.

Not exact matches

Chandler plays against type with casual machismo as Brooks tries to outwit and outshine Max on every step.

Incidents of rabid machismo accumulate at the mine (as to be expected, though, the offenses detailed in the actual case are considerably more egregious), with the initial salvos against the women taken in stride until the writing - with - excrement on the wall and the tipping of portable toilets becomes epidemic, pushing noble Josie to the stand.

Richard Porter rallies against the misplaced machismo of performance cars and urges us not to be a hero.

Starting with post-painterly abstraction, there has been a long reaction against the supposed egotistical machismo of abstract expressionism.

Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.