Sentence examples for virile strength from inspiring English sources

And when Rochester bangs on about Jane being so tiny he could crush her, surely she sometimes wishes she has Bertha's "virile strength" and could take him on.

Of the May 1899 concert at St. James's Hall, London, The Musical Times reviewer remarked on the rawness of some of the music, but praised the "boldness of conception and virile strength that command and hold attention".

The muscular strength and virile intensity of Corelli's singing is electrifying.

Yet an affecting melancholy pervades, as a once virile force slowly withers.

Later his ardor for Juliet focuses his exuberance, converting him into a virile force.

That he sang with a virile sound and sputtering intensity lent intriguing ambiguity to his portrayal.

The amount of raw sex in Hollinghurst's oeuvre gets lighter and lighter with each book: it's positively vanilla here, despite Cecil's "celebrated membrum virile".A talent for literary pastiche is the real strength.

Chernow dwells on Washington's manliness, describing him, every few pages or so, as "a superb physical specimen, with a magnificent physique," "an exceptionally muscular and vigorous young man," with an "imposing face and virile form," "powerfully rough-hewn and endowed with matchless strength," not excepting his "wide, flaring hips with muscular thighs".

But we have the strength of triumphant huntsmen; that and the tree's virile, icy perfume revive us, goad us on.

Forrest, whose acting was characterized by muscular strength and great vocal power, was perhaps the first to popularize the virile outdoor image cultivated by many American actors ever since.

One unsigned comment called the candidate "inwardly a frightened person who sees himself as weak and threatened by strong virile power around him," and added that "his call for aggressiveness and the need for individual strength and prerogatives is an attempt to defend himself against and to deny his feelings of weakness".