Sentence examples for something of a man from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fonseca, by contrast, has for years been something of a man about town.

Mr. Gonzalez has had several exhibitions of his art in San Francisco, and is a bachelor who is considered something of a man about town there.

Though his office a few blocks from the Capitol in Austin is something of a man cave — antique firearms, a mounted mule deer he shot in Hudspeth County — Mr. Patterson is not the macho type.

It is something of a man's world, the world of the Alpine hut, and I didn't envy the lady hikers (there were some) who braved the Hanauer dormitories, with all their associated sound effects and all the aromas of the unwashed male.

Despite the dresses and crazy antics, Berle, in reality, was something of a man about town in his prime.

Being something of a man-child can carry a player only so far.

"So, like, for Roger Waters, I'm writing, 'For the treatment of vertigo,' because, you know, 'The Wall?' " And for the photogenic Ms. Duff, who has been known as something of a man-killer, Mrs. Bancroft dictated to her daughter: "Write... 'Patricia.

Indeed, Mr. Reston himself was criticized for running The Times's Washington bureau in the 1950's and 60's as something of a men's club.

In person it's probably something of a man-purse, despite the masculine construction.

"He was portrayed as something of a wild man.

Davis has even become something of a league man.