Sentences with phrase «male machismo»

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).

Ryan O'Neal's taciturn, ice - cold lead performance, itself an extension of Hill's subdued aesthetic, also ushered in a new era of moody male machismo.

How is male machismo depicted in this film?

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I think it is more important to overcome the inherent substantial machismo in the God - talk, its bourgeois male ideals.

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.»

Despite its patriarchal rhetoric, it resocializes men away from the destructive patterns of machismo and redefines male aspirations to coincide with their wives».

What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor - sharp study of human nature itself.

Jennifer Sullivan, a New York based interdisciplinary artist, looks at what it is like to be a woman both critically and lovingly while occasionally skewering the machismo and overconfidence of early»80s male painters.

In his recent adult life, the artist noted an obvious machismo in the books» character - based narratives, including images of buff male superheroes and hyper - sexualized women.

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 societies.

When the August 1949 issue of LIFE magazine rhetorically asked the American public whether Jackson Pollock was «the greatest living painter in the United States,» simple, all - American machismo was the hook, selling the American public on the idea that Abstract Expressionism embodied the triumph of the individual male spirit.