Sentence examples for unmanliness from inspiring English sources

The question of why he proceeds to murder is partly answered by the insidious temptations of the three Weird Sisters, who sense Macbeth's vulnerability to their prophecies, and the terrifying strength of his wife, who drives him on to the murder by describing his reluctance as unmanliness.

Deploy a record of gallantry as a shield against intimations of unmanliness and disloyalty.

Was it his diplomacy towards Iran or his unmanliness in accepting Rice's bed?

As an undistinguished pupil at Marlborough and then at Cambridge (where he failed to take his degree), he discovered the feelings of exclusion that were also to dominate his whole life - feelings that stemmed from the way he viewed his Jewishness, his "unmanliness" and his homosexuality.

– ebb and surge through a once-in-a-lifetime cast (Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark) in which the doctors are often nuttier than the patients; or Tea And Sympathy, a halting, mealy-mouthed and profoundly dated attempt to deal, however obliquely, with the taboo of homosexuality, here dubbed "unmanliness".

Their every gesture expressed capitulation to unmanliness.