Sentence examples for virile character from inspiring English sources

The Dorian mode was preferred because of its strong and virile character; the Phrygian mode was ecstatic and emotional, the Lydian mode intimate and lascivious.

Formerly the bandmaster of the United States Marine Band, Sousa wrote military marches like "Stars and Stripes Forever" that reflected his "nostalgia for [his] home and country", giving the melody a "stirring virile character".

Despite his low opinion of the resulting picture, Levy offers a powerful reading of the film's use of color: the signature shade of yellow worn by Deborah Kerr and the male characters' varying shades of blue (dark for the "virile" characters, pale for the "sissies") are combined in the green dress Kerr wears in the climactic seduction scene.

Its violent, bitter language reflects the virile, rebellious character of the poet.

To establish a mature, heroic Hamlet — one who serves the parameters of Law's virile persona — Grandage steers us away from the character's psychological conundrums.

Opera is what Chinese performers call a "leading-role" form, a showcase for the art of the actor: practitioners spend a lifetime honing one rigidly defined character type – the virile warrior, the aged scholar, the virtuous empress, the giddy courtesan wafting her robes and fluttering her eyelashes.

Unlike Jerry Orbach, who brought a virile punch to the role, Mr. Cumpsty keeps his tough-talking character at arm's length.

The role needs virile grace, calm lyricism and easy bravura.

By this time, Inula racemosa forms giant, virile clumps through the main part of the garden.

James Franciscus, the virile actor whose talents enabled him to portray characters ranging from flinty cops to affable teachers, died late Monday night.

Instead of appearing virile with a trophy wife at his side, the title character is humiliated as the sweet young girl he weds to produce heirs morphs into a "Real Housewives" shrew who has him fleeing back to bachelorhood.