Sentence examples for man exerts from inspiring English sources

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"Marnie" is a movie of violent passion that contains an appalling rape scene; the essential subject of the movie is control — the control that a man exerts over an unwilling woman to "cure" her of her resistance to pleasure (that is, to pleasure with him and for him).

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All we hear from Mr. Hanks are the grunts and howls of a man exerting himself to stay alive against a backdrop of the roaring ocean and the wind eerily whistling outside the cave Chuck adopts as a shelter.

It was a genuinely menacing depiction of one man exerting sadistic power over another, which was all the more impressive when you consider that O'Connell was begging for his life in front of someone whose appearance should by rights have induced tears not of desperate panic but hopeless laughter.

Both appeared sturdy enough but there was no chance of getting the beam under the axle, and he knew that the possibility of he and the man exerting enough pressure to lift the entire side of a fairly large car was of course nil.

Testosterone, the major androgen in men, exerts its effect on bone by local conversion to 5α-dihydrotestosterone or by aromatization to estrogens.

Through a similar structure, the three men exert control of Nextera, which was intended to be a big consulting company.

Once there, he said, the men "exerted constant psychological pressure," demanding that he drop his lawsuits with the European Court.

Women and men exert this skinny allure: La Carmencita the Spanish dancer and W Graham Robertson the aesthetic dandy are two monuments to gilded age desires.

Soss as Firestone refers to the open discrimination against "Negroes" in the workplace and the overt pressure that men exert on "any intellectual woman or [woman] involved with the arts".

The standard explanation is patriarchy: that during the industrial revolution, between 1750 and 1900, men exerted their power by taking most of the new factory jobs, leaving women indoors to boil soiled nappies.

However, Bob Pittman, the boss of Clear Channel, a media firm, who serves on Airtime's board, argues that despite their mixed entrepreneurial record the two men "exert an influence on this industry that isn't recognised", offering advice on others' ideas behind the scenes.

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