Sentences with phrase «macho world»

Above all this, there was the unremitting pressure of being a woman in the notoriously macho world of New York art.

A second - generation Abstract Expressionist, she was a woman in a macho world.

Kleberg was born a bit too late (in 1985) and a bit too removed (his father chose a career in finance) to experience daily the macho world of his grandfather, Dick Kleberg Jr., and his Uncle Tio, the last of the Klebergs to manage the legendary ranch before a corporation took the reins.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world.

Here the urban tough guy finds himself all adrift among the country mice, particularly his new partner, PC Danny Butterman, a fantastically overweight and lenient bobby played by Nick Frost, who is saucer - eyed with excitement about the macho world of London law - enforcement.

Bullhead bears some similarities to the recent stylish crime sagas Bronson (in that it's essentially a character study, driven by a volatile lead performance) and Animal Kingdom (in that it's about a macho world in which everyone's watching everyone else, trying to suss out weakness).

Screenwriter William Monahan knows that arrogance and a deprecating sense of humor matter just as much as the size of your gun in the macho world of cops and the mafia, and the characters are well - armed.

is being a gay man in the very heterosexual, very macho world of the FDNY..

The tech entrepreneur Clara Shih, who founded the successful social - media company Hearsay Social in 2010 and joined the board of Starbucks at the tender age of 29, is one of the few female CEOs in the still - macho world of Silicon Valley.

Not exact matches

Of course, firstborns also are represented in the entertainment world, but here is an intriguing fact — many firstborn movie stars (including Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and every actor who's played James Bond) chose macho roles.

In fact, Pentecostal churches attract men to the domestic world and redefine the macho role, proposing new values for masculine behavior.

-LSB-...] This fruity concoction might not sound like the most macho drink in the world, but it sure looks like it.

You could make it, like Jim Jordan did, as a 98 - pound young man in a macho tough - guy world, if you wrestled.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup winner — who hasn't been getting much game - time this season — is set to make his big screen debut in the German comedy «Macho Man» according to the Metro.

ALMOST two years ago, the astronomical world was set alight by the discovery of dim, point - like objects called MACHOs in the invisible halo of dark matter that surrounds our Galaxy (This Week, 25 September 1993).

I loved the heartfelt adoption drama Lion which has eight nominations, though was less impressed by Mel Gibson's strident, macho but well acted true - life second world war drama Hacksaw Ridge.

While a large part of the world still considers homosexuality a crime punishable by sentences as severe as death, Great Britain during the 1980s was divided, with macho organizations like coal miners unmistakably in the camp of homophobes.

If that juicy peek inside the fashion industry (with a withering supporting performance from Meryl Streep) was a chick flick guys could enjoy, «Draft Day» depicts a macho, muscular world in which women viewers can find themselves enthralled, as well.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.

But when Angel, his macho estranged father, abruptly re-enters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down.

In the macho truck world of torque, towing and bigger - is - better, Honda's Ridgeline never gets a nod from the die - hards.

In this course from PublishDrive's Zsofia Macho, find out how to price your ebook for various territories and learn the best practices for selling your books across the world.

You've shown the world that it is far more masculine and macho for men to be kind and respectful and caring to senior dogs or newborn kittens.

While this kind of intellectual jousting is, for the most part, a relic of the macho New York art world past, curators still struggle to articulate why one Minimalist sculpture may be better than another.

Together with the Guston, these present a rare picture of the US at mid-20th century: not the familiar macho assertiveness, but an art of meditative subtlety and melancholy, resonant with an America that currently seems uncertain of its place in the world.

She still seems the opposite of a macho, art - world celebrity.

About The Artists: Comprised of members Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby - Barr, Christopher Buchan, and Lauchie Reid, Team Macho shares a large studio in Toronto, where their collective efforts are focused on developing an art - making practice that spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration.

One reason their works were so powerful is that at that time they inserted themselves into the local New York world of macho expressive painting.

They have a studied male - ness that looks to the macho ethic of early American Abstract Expressionists, a quality that would not suit them for survival in the fey world of Pop.

She's remembered for her lively, brushy style and for having succeeded against all odds in the macho 1950s - 1960s art world.