machismo

His depictions of authoritarianism, violence and machismo, using rich language and imagery, made him a star of the Latin American Boom literary movement that shone a global spotlight on the continent.

This was thanks in no small part to the beach volleyball scene, in which Kilmer oozed the sort of hunky machismo that’s even more beguiling the more you try to resist it.

Selena’s performances felt like cathartic responses to the machismo she faced as a young woman, which, as it also turned out, was coming from inside the house.

Aden, the ringleader, wears the mask-like machismo of a father who doesn’t want his kids to know that things aren’t under control.

One writer condemned it as “unspeakably violent” and “wrapped up in machismo, militarism, swagger and patriotism.”