The night depicted in "Virile" captures every shade of this.
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"Virile" by the Blaze dropped in January with little initial fanfare.
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What they can't do is create healthy, virile new blood vessels.
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Does it make them feel virile to watch sperm fly around?
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During intense outbursts, his virile voice had burnished power and ping.
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Nick Cox is uncomplicated and virile, his houses are appalling but comfortable.
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His employees, especially virile chauffeurs and nubile starlets, are forbidden to fraternize.
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Specifically, a man is unable to control the motions of his virile member.
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Real polar bears are vicious, virile creatures: they're able to eat human beings.
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The baritone Quinn Kelsey was stalwart and virile-voiced as Amonasro, Aida's father.
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His virile singing had rich colorings in softer passages and ringing top notes.
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It was still thick and virile, full of buying advice and tips and tricks.
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Flanagan: The fact that Rob is bald, does that make him any less virile?
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All three pups have the same father, a virile male sea lion named Niko.
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The good thing is he hated it with a virile-ness that I liked.
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"Virile" and its follow up video "Territory" centred firmly on human emotion and expression.
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Ms. Cooper's staging is virile — under Christopher Akerlind's lighting, it is also occasionally sculptural.
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" Mr. Barron signed them to the label, and "Virile" was soon followed by "Territory.
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Besides singing with virile power, they threw themselves into a drunken barroom brawl scene.
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"The last time the world saw him he was a virile, young man," Woolston said.
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The tenor Jeffrey Thompson brought an affecting blend of virile sound and bafflement to Ulysses.
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He argues sociocultural transformations are probably making men less virile, and Mr. Peterson nods along.
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One day it will find its redeemer — inevitably a strong and virile man — and triumph.
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He sang with plush yet virile sound while merging into his character, holding back nothing.
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Another compound, called H23-gamendazole, prevents sperm from reaching their mature (and thus virile) form.
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Thompson, then a new addition to TV's Hee Haw, fell fast for the "masculine, virile" Jenner.
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He did not exactly, when young and virile, ride through mansions of glory on suicide machines.
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Think of all the virile male artists holding up their infants to the camera, like trophies.
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If you're young and kind of virile and you're supposed to be inspired, you get inspired.
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"The phallus, the erect penis, and the ability to 'perform' connects to being virile," he explained.
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The Harry Potter series take place in a boarding school full of young, virile witches and wizards.
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The fastidious houseboy is dismissed as a delicate flower, mocked for simpering over Sara's young, virile brother.
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"Virile" is a portrait of the true and valuable male bond that can be made in clubland.
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Yet even as he fortifies his resolve in virile exclamations, his music has an undertow of doubt.
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The tenor Alexander Nesterenko's virile voice and noble bearing were ideal for the well-meaning Prince Sinodal.
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If you're not interested in an album called Virile Strain Transmission then you're pretty much beyond hope.
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He responded, "It's like "Ooh, you're young and virile and you've got a beautiful wife and kids.
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"I was surprised at the virile reaction from readers to this article," Motherboard managing editor Adrianne Jeffries said.
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"Virile" was followed up with last year's video for "Territory": a powerful illustration of an Algerian man's homecoming.
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High on the virile lyrics of Duran Duran, Conor asks Raphina to model for his band's music video.
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The man was tall and thin, with dark hair on his head and chest and a virile mustache.
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In this rendering, the condom is kryptonite, a relic that saps the virile homosexual of his primordial sexual power.
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While the comedy does ultimately overshadow the tragic dimensions of the story, Mr. Pringle is a commanding, virile presence.
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"The sexual politics of meat assumes men need to eat meat in order to be masculine and virile," says Adams.
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Though the woman has the upper hand in terms of age, she is often a conquest for the virile dude.
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The tenor James Valenti had a mixed outing as Cavaradossi; he's tall and good-looking and has a virile voice.
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He supposedly went on a retreat to study an Egyptian tantric art that allowed him to stay virile for hours.
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Plus, there's an extra suggestion that nothing helps an older lady out of a rut quite like a virile boy.
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Since the release of their debut video "Virile" in January 2016, French duo The Blaze have excelled in this practice.
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Even encumbered by a giant prosthetic nose, he produced his characteristic virile tenor, his sound bright, taut and slightly metallic.
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Mr. Polenzani combines both qualities in his poignant, gripping performance, singing with melting warmth one moment, virile heft the next.
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Were she male, the audience might assume that a virile young warrior would want to kick back and indulge between executions.
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Even the wild-haired Charles Darwin speculated that primeval females preferred bearded mates on the assumption that they were more virile.
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The baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, singing with virile sound and soaring lyricism, captures the confusions of the Duke, shattered by personal betrayal.
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We saw him as a virile man who was so taken with this woman that he would do anything to have her.
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"Bowie used his unconventional, ostentatious gender presentation to challenge what the mainstream public associated with virile cisgender men," Slate's Christina Cauterucci notes.
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It was so cute to see this shrinking little 90-year-old with this big, tall virile guy get along so well.
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From that moment, she is fully hooked: Dick becomes her white whale, the fire of her loins, her virile cowboy idée fixe.
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The Medieval age featured crazy dick monsters, but also codpieces showing off his lordship's mighty junk as a sign of virile power.
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In this, he resembles less the plucky, virile Christian future soldiers of Tom Brown's Schooldays than their villain, school bully Harry Flashman.
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He just excelled at marketing a product that made some men feel worldly and virile and some women feel sophisticated and proudly sexual.
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So "being virile" is an aspect of the heteronormative masculine ideal, and failing to meet that ideal reaps negative results, socially, for men.
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"The biggest thing to get these guys to understand is that when you choke up, it doesn't mean you're less virile," he said.
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Mr. Kwiecien plays Onegin at first as a shameless flirt who toys with the smitten Tatiana, singing with virile allure and breezy charm.
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Hunting for rebounds on your own like some handsome, rugged, virile bear looking to eat a filthy Leonardo DiCaprio is almost entirely useless.
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Gilles Brinas, the company's founder and choreographer, provides rousing synchronized stomping routines for the dozen virile dancers, supported by the thunder of live drumming.
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These are virile American men, and so their shirts come off to reveal patriotic tattoos — stars and stripes and eagles — on tanned, buttery skin.
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Next to him, Priebus seems to be an older model of the same White House official, looking back at his younger, more virile self.
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I'll take the trade-off of some vocal rawness and overly impulsive moments for the virile excitement he brings, complete with thrilling top notes.
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Evidently, they are not only helpless before the hordes of virile foreigners rampaging through their continent, but also keenly complicit in their own destruction.
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Daniel Ulbricht, always sparky and engaging, keeps gaining subtlety; but Andrew Veyette, another source of virile humor, is showing a few signs of coarseness.
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Mufunda had developed an abdominal massage technique for this purpose, to be conducted during breeding season when the penguins were at their most virile.
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Whereas James Bond was once considered a paragon of virile masculinity, Lisbeth is a gender-fluid, queer archetype for the politically active generation's franchise hero.
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And even as his production began to tail off in later decades, the cleft-chinned star remained a virile sex symbol well into his sixties.
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The sheer horror of the situation, of seeing a once virile man reduced to a quaking sack of flesh — I can't begin to quantify it.
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Hipster fascists with hard-ons for modernity, speed, and war, they dreamed of a New Man, virile and "metallized," who would Make Italy Great Again.
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Each of these derisions stuck because they worked, simultaneously, on two levels: at once bolstering Trump's own virile image and identifying real weaknesses in his opponents.
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While the pathos displayed through "Virile" could be easily written off as a strain of fucked chat, the video in fact captures something important and neglected.
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"I can't believe how many women are objectifying these poor, fine, young, strong, handsome, brave, sexy, delicious, virile, ovulation-inducing, mouth-watering, beefy," one commenter wrote.
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" He gestured toward his image onscreen: "I clearly don't know how to fight, and I don't look anything like my stunt double, this virile-looking guy.
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Yet in book after book, the heroine's overriding goal is to find true love with a hero who is superlatively handsome, staggeringly virile and stupendously rich.
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The young leads are excellent: a charismatic Trent Saunders as Che, a virile-voiced Omar Lopez-Cepero as Perón, and the beguiling Arianna Rosario as Evita.
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But here's the thing: There are no back tattoos in Triple Frontier, nor do any of our strapping (virile?) heroes strip for some fun amid the waves.
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Lesin spearheaded the Russian government's takeover of the media under Vladimir Putin, and helped manufacture Putin's image "as a virile, uncorrupt leader," according to The Washington Post.
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Keen to be viewed as the virile leaders of their respective countries; eager to inflate their image by harming migrants and refugees, the most vulnerable in society.
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Cary Grant represented postwar American masculinity at its most virile; Jimmy Stewart was the American Everyman, humble and downtrodden but always striving to do the right thing.
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However, the vision "Virile" offers is a far more truthful account as to what the fraternal bond created in the dark of the nightclub is actually like.
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In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, Krieger said that taking the steroids created virile features and heightened confusion about an already uncertain gender identity.
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In the same way that a communication which is very virile, has an advantage or makes something replicate more quickly, those ideas spread through the system faster.
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And as Riccardo, a Puritan colonel who had been promised Elvira's hand, the virile baritone Alexey Markov sang with dark-hued richness, yet came across as bland.
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Yet at the start of episode 3, there she stood in the banquet hall of the selfsame castle, virile and battle-flushed and very much un-kersplattered. Huh?
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His brand of self-consciously beautiful, self-consciously virile masculinity is so heightened and so laced with irony as to become a burlesque long before he dons drag.
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That inconvenience, coupled with a superstition that birds from the wild are more virile and better singers than birds bred in captivity, feeds the market for smuggled birds.
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"There is something wild in the air," says Assunta (Carolyn Mignini), in the play's opening moments, to Serafina (Tomei), the ecstatically married wife of a virile truck driver.
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He is virile, yet slender, and gradually, after the picture's first impact, when we might well think that "it's all about the coat," we realise that it isn't.
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Spartacus is still shown in high school history classes across the nation, and his cleft chin remains a signifier of a specific and steadfast type of virile masculinity.
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His eczema is gone, he's on the biggest case of his life, he's working out (undercover, but still!) and the doctor's powder probably has him as virile as ever.
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An incurable lung disease struck down Nampon and he went from virile kickboxer to a stick thin has-been nursed round-the-clock by attendant family and loyal friends.
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For instance, President Trump and Michael Bloomberg get a bizarre glow-up in smoothed, shiny representations that make them both appear younger and more virile than they actually are.
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Mr. Craig, whom international moviegoers know as the infinitely suave James Bond, lends Iago a disarming, virile charm, through which only we can glimpse the contempt and the calculation.
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Take "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," one of his best early stories: A man is born old, eventually becomes young and virile, then dwindles into a squalling infant.
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But Tarantino drew on the stylizations of the spaghetti Western, and the freedom of fiction, which enabled him to present Foxx's virile performance as a kind of sly joke.
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Nothing pairs better with Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge than Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics.
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Even Ms. Goerke, with her powerhouse voice, was sometimes covered, as was her partner, the strong German tenor Stefan Vinke, whose grainy, virile voice was impressive in this daunting scene.
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As Maria's brother, Bernardo, leader of the Sharks, Donald Jones Jr. was a virile presence, his love for his sister flaring into menace when he learned of her clandestine romance.
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At Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, however, Mr. Beczala claimed a birthright: songs by three Polish composers little-heard in New York, music he sang with virile sound and linguistic authority.
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Our idea of Driver is a Marine, meaning that all those muscles aren't just for show but are useful, that he is the ideal of man as a virile warrior.
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"Arachnids don't necessarily have erections like mammals do," he says when I asked what type of scenario a young, virile harvestman would have to put himself in to die so... happily.
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While D. H. Lawrence may feel like the guiding muse of "Cal in Camo," Mr. Hoffman also tips his hat (a baseball cap, one imagines) to another virile writer, David Mamet.
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In the Socrates role of Alexei Ratmansky's new "Serenade After Plato's Symposium," he shows all his depth and easy authority, and in "Sylvia," his virile charm was at its most effortless.
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The paper's 1911 assessment of his work still stands: "His work as a master of slang and criticism terse and virile stands as one of the masterpieces of Sing Sing's literature."
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His ultra-virile name is Manny Victor, and in the movie he was played by a weaselly Ben Gazzara, which made any sexual heat between him and Myrtle seem a stretch.
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For such virile displays of his manhood — but also for silencing the press, imprisoning journalists, having political rivals assassinated, invading neighboring countries and bombing civilians in Syria — Trump gives Putin high marks.
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The incel movement — a politically radicalized form of misogyny in which "involuntarily celibate" men envision taking vengeance on the virile "Chads" and shallow "Stacys" they believe are contributing to their sexual poverty.
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Posters like this one, by James Daugherty, showed virile young men — unblemished by combat — posed as if they were ready to receive a victory garland without having lifted a well-muscled finger.
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Kerkorian's lawyers had argued that he could not have been the biological father of the child because he was sterile, while Bonder said his fatherhood claim was all about maintaining a virile image.
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You know, I don't think of myself as a 53-year-old with a mortgage and three kids, I think of myself as a virile young 25, at the beginning of my career.
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Dr. Aznan also mentions a kind of jamu that is meant to make men more virile but which many producers just mix with crushed Viagra to make it seem like it actually works.
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The qualities of Mr. Kaufmann's voice that have made him the most sought-after tenor in opera were vividly present, especially the unusual combination of burnished, virile sound and slightly covered, dusky shadings.
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The baritone Keith Phares brings a virile voice and deadpan comedic gifts to Maximilian, Cunegonde's self-absorbed brother, who primps constantly to maintain his reputation as the handsomest young man in the realm.
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In "Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror" (1968) the striking young man in a neatly tailored suit gazes over his shoulder into a mirror, which reflects back a virile, if fragmented, profile.
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" Others commented, "I can't believe how many women are objectifying these poor, fine, young, strong, handsome, brave, sexy, delicious, virile, ovulation-inducing, mouth-watering, beefy….. I can't remember where I was going with this….
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Pan Pan 'strong and virile' Pandas are famously difficult to breed in captivity -- a female is fertile for no more than three days a year and a pregnancy can last up to 200 days.
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And they all offer something different, to be sure: Trump is the flashy red sports car you are told will make you feel virile and powerful again in the midst of your midlife crisis.
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He seems to see her as virile, in a way that, in his competitive eyes, the boys can never be; her gender is less a barrier than a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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The film shows excerpts from dances Shawn made for the company, many of them stressing weight and strain, labor and combat, in keeping with the goal of persuading audiences that dance could be virile.
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Both were artists of the first caliber and lovers of virile young men; critics think the "28 Young Men Bathe by the Shore" passage in Song of Myself inspired Eakins' painting The Swimming Hole.
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" Some doctors reached incredible insights into a man who they never spoke to, including one who said that "inwardly a frightened person who sees himself as weak and threatened by strong virile power around him.
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Angelin Preljocaj's "MC 14/22 (Ceci, est mon corps)" takes its cue from the Last Supper and casts 12 strapping men as apostle-like figures in a sensuous, virile work that worships the male form.
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"She was looking for a virile man, for a man who would fulfill her, who represented a warrior," said Ms. de Féo, adding that perhaps it was linked to having been abandoned by her father.
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Designer Deborah Landis created the iconic V shape to broaden Jackson's shoulders in an attempt to make him look more virile, creating a look that can currently be purchased as either fashion or fancy dress.
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Directly opposite the Picasso show is Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition, where yet more stylized sensual nudes spill over the walls and merchandise; another artist whose subjectification of women served his own dual artistic and virile obsessions.
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Decked out like a GI Joe figure in camouflage pants and a wife beater, he flaunts his massive biceps, is far more virile than the comparatively wimpy King Admetos, is an obnoxious drunk, and oozes overconfidence.
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While we prefer to believe Matt's virile enough to grow his hair eight inches in one evening simply by willing it to be so, this new do is likely courtesy of a whole lot of extensions.
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Frustratingly however, rather than representing the a cross-section of the nation's virile youth, the quotes appeared to have been lifted straight from a lifestyle tumblr, somewhere on frilly side of the internet where Zoella lives.
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Apparently, this decision was motivated by an industry-wide prejudice: Vegas audiences did not want to see a fairy waving a magic wand, they wanted a virile heterosexual who could fuck the woman he sawed in half.
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Militaries, which have higher infection rates than civilian populations (in theory because as young, virile men move around, they engage in sexually risky behaviors, swapping diseases with locals and bringing them to the next deployment), would crumble.
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In particular, he mentions the 19th century idea of a virile individual in communion with nature that is expressed in literature by Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain, and in figurative art by Thomas Eakins.
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It must have been a lonely time for the old lady, but then along came Abdul Karim, in his virile youth, and he was very soon treating her not only as an empress but as a woman.
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Filmed on a budget of next-to-nothing, "Virile" is a charming and almost romantic portrait, hinging on an are-they-friends-or-are-they-lovers interaction between two men as they party in a high-rise flat.
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He also manages to evoke a type of man we've seen a lot of in recent months — the working-class guy who says he's voting for Donald Trump because he wants America to be strong and virile again.
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He does much of the cooking (he left the pub early to start dinner), and it's easy to see how the tenderness of a virile man would appeal to a woman as conflicted as Cusk is about femininity.
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The text is set with impressive clarity, and Mr. Gilfry sings every phrase with crisp diction and dramatic point, delivering phrases with virile energy, sudden bluster, or, during vulnerable moments, an aching confusion that takes you by surprise.
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Just as patriotic intellectuals a century ago argued that national strength derives from the virile energy of the youth, present-day Chinese nationalists see their ambitions take the shape of a macho willingness to fight for righteous causes.
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Yet most often nowadays you go to an Armani show awaiting the moment at its conclusion when Mr. Armani — still notably handsome, fit and virile looking, although born in 1934 — emerges from backstage to greet his adoring subjects.
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That's not to vindicate any "Not All Men" bullshit, but "Virile" is a reminder that while clubs can prove a playground for the worst in macho posturing and predation, they can also play host to the most honest of connections.
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The parasites, which need to cling to the roots of our body hair—especially our pubic hair—to breed, suck our blood, and cause intense itching, were associated with hairy, virile, hippie-style sexuality, according to medical entomologist Ian F. Burgess.
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In India's case, the renewal of the virile Hindu subject was instrumental, allowing the BJP to claim that its opponents in the Congress Party were "sickulars" whose opportunistic vote-bank politics came at the expense of the long-oppressed Hindu majority.
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The story is set entirely in the past, but its depiction of the stubborn delusions that fueled American expansionism — and the ways in which "proving up" comes to mean both having a home and being a virile man — feels entirely current.
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In pictures from the era, Des Barres is an ethereal, glowing redhead in silk vintage wear—exactly the kind of woman you'd want to spend time with if you were a virile young rock star in town for the week.
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As the details of the gorilla's story gathered in the press, he was often depicted in a stylish wire-service shot, crouched with an arm over his right knee, brooding at the camera like Sean Connery in his virile years.
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The next night I resolve to abstain from sex and instead turn myself on in the best and most effective way I know: by watching an episode of British soap opera Eastenders, featuring the incredibly virile and erotic hardman actor, Danny Dyer.
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The virile young Rafa who coached Liverpool to their fifth European Cup is now old and jaded, misused and abused at Inter Milan and Chelsea before being hounded out of his dream job at Real Madrid at the turn of the year.
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Perhaps his opening aria, "Tra voi belle," was a touch forced and lacked the Mozartean lightness that should characterize this openhearted student at the beginning of the story, but through the evening his voice developed a virile beauty of uncanny power and depth.
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For Lily, part of the allure of the Trenthams is the increasing element of menace she senses in their midst: the graphic, possibly obscene nature of Evan's paintings; the lack of rules; the virile young men Helena and Evan bring into their family.
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She also appeared as a nightclub manager in Orson Welles's 1958 classic "Touch of Evil" and, the same year, as a sexy alien in "Queen of Outer Space," a camp favorite about virile American astronauts landing on a planet populated by scantily clad women.
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But more important to the play's intriguing and ever timely central thesis is the fact that Song is Asian, perceived as a fragile lotus blossom waiting to be plucked by virile white hands, like the doomed heroine of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," Gallimard's favorite opera.
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The folks willing to try stem cells rather than stick to established enhancements, Terlecki says, also seem to have money to blow and to be willing to try everything anyone tells them will make them feel younger and more virile, like dubious testosterone treatments.
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From the time he was voted "Ladies' Man" at New York Military Academy, to his role in beauty pageants, to his marriages to three beautiful women, cultivating an image as a "playboy," or as "virile," often seems as important to Trump's brand as any of his dealmaking.
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We see toxic masculinity in our culture when "women are depicted as submissive, passive, and meek, while men are viewed as strong, dominant, and virile," Mellissa Withers, a professor at the University of Southern California Institute for Global Health and an expert in gender-based violence, told Vox.
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But when it's finally revealed that not only is she in on her folks' twisted brain-swapping of white elderly people into virile African-American men (and women), but she's the attractive bait used to lure the black victims in, it's one of the shocking twists of the movie.
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I soon meet the artist, after he concludes a meeting with his army of assistants regarding The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment , his show at the Red Bull Arts New York (formerly Red Bull Studios.) Melgaard may be nearing his 50s, but his hulking physique recalls his past as a virile bodybuilder.
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And Derulo is perhaps the perfect choice for Rum Tum Tugger, a macho and virile cat whose song, "The Rum Tum Tugger," is filled with what can only be described as big d--- energy — interesting, considering Derulo&aposs genitals appear to have been digitally removed from the final cut of the film.
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We have to overcome gendered pressure — on men, that you should be so virile and psychic that you know what your partner needs better than they do, and on women, that we shouldn't be wanting sex in the first place so how dare we say we want more of that one thing and less (or none) of the other.
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Although the role he defines is traditionally virile, his thoughtful response implies both self-awareness and an understanding of queer identity: I have no doubt that ten or twenty years from now a lot of my work will seem dated, too, because the gay subculture isn't so "sub" any more and the stereotypes of masculinity are pretty much gone.
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There have been so many articles about the mystique of Sixteen Candles' Jake Ryan — the effortlessly cool senior, he's virile and mysterious, surrounded by dumb friends, yet he can somehow see something in Samantha (played by Molly Ringwald), who, in the 1984 film's stark binaries, is supposed to be the quirky choice in contrast to his gorgeously blonde party-girl girlfriend.
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News Analysis WHEN Hubert H. Humphrey captured the Democratic presidential nomination in 21980, at a Democratic convention marked by violence on the streets and protests in the hall by supporters of Eugene McCarthy, Yippie anti-war demonstrators threatened to spike Chicago's water system with L.S.D. and enlist a squad of virile men to seduce the wives and daughters of delegates.
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The templates that we do have for male reproductive narratives tend to view men as "virile" from puberty to death (even though factors in the male partner account for about half of the known cases of infertility), as generally subsidiary to the efforts involved in making a baby, and less emotionally vulnerable than women when they experience infertility and pregnancy loss.
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The tattoo—so gargantuan that the bird's tail found itself dipping below the waistband of Affleck's blue swim trunks—was plainly visible…His gut is pooching outward in a way that, in a more enlightened country like, say, France, would perhaps be considered virile, not unlike the lusty Gérard Depardieu in his prime but, in fitness-fascist America, tends to read as Homer Simpsonesque.
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Over the years her batty claims have included that a woman's brain can allow her to become pregnant if she so desires, even if she is using birth control; that women's intellects and creativity are dependent on their sexual fulfillment and, specifically, the skillful ministrations of a "virile man"; and that writing a letter to a breech baby will induce it to turn right side up.
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For more than two decades, Mr. Jones, who is 44, has built a substantial following appealing to an angry, largely white, majority male audience that can choose simply to be entertained or to internalize his rendering of their worst fears: that the government and other big institutions are out to get them, that some form of apocalypse is frighteningly close and that they must become more virile, and better-armed, to survive.
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On the far side of the central gallery wall is an unassuming research piece, "Conversation with Magic Forms" (2015), by the group Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley) that visually riffs on a 1970 illustrated autobiography by English artist Barbara Hepworth; in it, the famed sculptor's family and children appear alongside her abstract, organic forms, suggesting a curious maternal homology (compare this treatment to that of the virile sculptor Brancusi, typically photographed with tools or in his studio sans his one unacknowledged offspring).
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