Sentences with phrase «by machismo»

Most teens have the urge of driving very fast, either motivated or pressured by peers or by the machismo effect among boys.

Despite the idea that a woman artist could literally have invented abstract painting, over the course of art history Klint's name has been all but scrapped from the record of abstract art, which has been cast, however falsely, as a genre driven by machismo and muscle.

has had it's run of success, and some well - earned at that, but it's time to end the dull brown and grey firefights followed by a machismo «CLEAR!»

Frankly, Gears has had it's run of success, and some well - earned at that, but it's time to end the dull brown and grey firefights followed by a machismo «CLEAR!»

You'll either be enthralled or repelled by its machismo.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the movie «a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino,» adding that it was sure to offend a good - sized segment of the moviegoing population.»

Frankie is surrounded by machismo, which makes his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality all the more understandable without Hittman turning the film into a heavy - handed «issues» movie.

As Brad becomes more and more ensnared by the machismo corkscrew of Phi Sigma Mu, their familial blood bonds are threatened.

Not exact matches

All of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency of the establishment of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources of faith, that all the stuff of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and economic domination, energy independence (ha!).

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

Reading the Bible teaches individual worth and human rights, and it encourages mutual obligation within marriage, promoting the Christian «reformation of machismo» described by scholar Elizabeth Brusco.

JAY - Z represents a past era of hip - hop dominated by bravado, machismo and braggadocio, and his latest offering establishes him as someone who will outlive that era of the art form.

The more of this «manly» Christianity I see, the more I'm convinced that it's just a cover for bad behavior, motivated by a misguided longing for a certain sort of machismo that Jesus neither endorsed nor practiced.»

During my (short - lived) kitchen exploits, lacking the obligatory culinary machismo wasn't tolerated by the rest of the line.

We men love to show our food machismo by eating food hot enough to melt your ex's heart.

This book isCourson's reflection on a sporting life gone awry, a heartfelt, if you will, attempt by a former prince of machismo to figure out why he did so many crazythings to play the game of football.

He dismissed the Government's decision as «pointless political machismo» engineered by Peter Mandelson.

After years of weightlifting — and enduring the tight shoulders, back pain and machismo that resulted — I was cornered, flogged and dragged by a friend to my first yoga class with the incomparable Maureen McGuire of Yale University.

On a South Dakota farm, he works for Wayne (Vince Vaughn), at once exhausted and energized by the physical labor, mostly bemused by Wayne's conventionally «outlaw» machismo.

The nose - to - nose battle of arrogant egos between Downey and Cumberbatch are a riot, and the machismo marathon by Chris Hemsworth's smug Thor and Chris Pratt's overmatched Star Lord is classic buffoonery.

With The Predator under the direction of Black, a veteran of action movies and master of witty dialogue, Fox seems to want to bring Predator back to its roots of chest - bumping machismo getting chopped down by scary alien monsters.

The mocking has been replaced by sneering, however, and rather than punch holes in the machismo attitudes espoused in mainstream fare, Kick - Ass 2 embraces brutal misogny, as though it were a good thing.

Mostly occurring in a hideout as the robbers of a failed heist attempt return one by one, each telling their version of the story, it's a machismo, testosterone - soaked, violent film of the sort that guys love.

Whereas the book, intended as satire, is sickeningly misogynist, the movie mocks male machismo, plays like a violent comedy and showcases a fearless performance by Christian Bale (brilliant as a murderous fool with a great physique).

For some more overt machismo — on an album largely geared to a female perspective — there's «The Wolf» by the Spencer Lee Band, with a riff vaguely hinting at Stevie Wonder's «Superstition» and a vocal that yowls like Mr. Wonder and hoots like Michael Jackson (and the Weeknd), leering, «Your body's sweating, dripping wet and I just can't control myself.»

By the time Krasinski got to «A Quiet Place,» his filmography was pulsing with paternal machismo, and a desire to prove himself as an entertainer.

This is because all Mr. Nukem needs to sprint towards a horde of enemies while being hit by hundreds of bullets is his overly inflated ego and his stereotypical machismo.

First introduced as a rough - and - tumble teen with antisocial leanings, Kanji is feared by the locals and maintains a confrontational machismo toward the other characters throughout the game.

23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.

Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint - slinging, hard - drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

By portraying the figures in her paintings with cartoonish whimsy, she is trying to strip the male oppressors of their power by undermining the culture of machismo that pervades many societieBy portraying the figures in her paintings with cartoonish whimsy, she is trying to strip the male oppressors of their power by undermining the culture of machismo that pervades many societieby undermining the culture of machismo that pervades many societies.

Abstract Expressionism's reputation for large - scale machismo is beautifully challenged by the central placement of Lee Krasner's The Seasons (1957), a work nearly 17 by 8 feet large that is rambunctious and pastoral at once.

Her defiant nature was exemplified by a mythical advertisement in the November 1974's edition of ArtForum, in which she posed naked brandishing a dildo — satirising the machismo of the art world.

She lampooned both the machismo of the art world and the way artists were expected to promote themselves in a market - driven system by exposing herself, with a dildo between her legs, in a 1974 Artforum advertisement that she paid for, earning her as many fans as detractors.

He considers the relationship between labor / leisure as it fits into conceptions of femininity and masculinity, specifically by evaluating the myth of Machismo and its correlation to patriarchal culture.

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.

(Today, it's unrepentant machismo relates to the politically incorrect work of the 1990's by artists like Kara Walker and Sue Williams.)

Besides, Abstract Expressionism, «defined in the histories by the work of a few well - known, larger - than - life painters,» has been particularly plagued by a myth of machismo.

«Soul of a Nation» ends in 1983, with performance art, depicted in videos and photographs, and the show makes a persuasive case for artists like Lorraine O'Grady and Senga Nengudi, who were making complex and transgressive works at a time when the art world was favoring the commercial gestures of machismo by artists like Julian Schnabel.

The voracious sexuality and hallmark stylization of Picasso's depictions of women are evoked by the abstract marks, speaking of a modernist painterly machismo, while the soft - focus female nudes establish woman as anonymous muse, sexual object and aesthetic ideal.

And yet, when joined by three smaller, quieter works that were made a couple of years later, not long after his difficult return from Germany to the United States, the machismo Marsden of the Iron Cross suddenly becomes a different and far more vulnerable artist.

- Richard Prince The enigmatically titled, Anyone Can Find Me, 1989 — 1990, one of Richard Prince's oblique, wall - hanging sculptural renditions of muscle car hoods, exudes a red - blooded American machismo made strange by its refined Minimalist aesthetic.

The overall gesture is extravagant in its largesse and Serra-esque machismo; the branches morph into torches that, instead of painting with fire leave, their mark by dripping wax in circular patterns on the gallery floor.

This goal manifested itself in the artist's deviation from the mass - media iconography popularized by Pop Art, the mythic emotionalism of Abstract Expressionism, and the machismo detachment of Minimalism.

I have worked in environments that are dominated by men and have a strong culture of machismo.