Sentence examples for like a sissy from inspiring English sources

He makes Quentin Tarantino look like a sissy boy.

Shupe recalls feeling like an outcast, being admonished for acting like a "sissy" and without any role models, struggling to articulate feelings of a gender mismatch.

"Do the dirty bird," "shake it like a sissy," "wobble it" and "walk it like a dog," he calls as his four male dancers demonstrate the dances on stage, turning their backs to the audience or even standing on their heads as they practically dislocate their backsides and shake them up and down like a low-riding car.

He is the kind of man that makes Indiana Jones look like a sissy.

In his 1973 autobiography "Wilt", he stated that the "granny shot" made him look "silly - like a sissy", so he reverted to the lower percentage shot he had previously used, or "went back to missing free throws", as one writer notes), one-handed, two-handed, from the side of the circle, from well behind the line, and even tried banking them in.

This "pill" had the power to systematically remind me of the behaviors that were socially accepted in a man: "Sit like a man … don't walk that way, walk like a man … don't sing that way, sing like a man … don't cry … don't play with dolls … don't move your hands like that, you look like a sissy".

It was a conversation not unlike this one that prompted Gillian Candelaria, 16, to write an article about Scot that ran last month in The Long Beach Herald and to write an opinion essay for the school paper, The Tide. "Somehow Scot's name came up during my math class one day and people were all saying negative things like he's a sissy or a girly-boy," Gillian said.

He matched his great partner, Alexandra Danilova, in brio, and at that time, when ballet still looked suspect to many people, audiences liked him all the more in that he seemed like a guy, not a sissy.

Compared with the high inside throwers of my era like Don Drysdale and Bob Gibson, I was a sissy, even though I threw hard.

"Back then," he recalled, "if you were a boy who liked to dance, you were called a sissy.

"I was a rotten athlete, I liked puppet shows and I was kind of a sissy," he recalled in The Times interview.