(n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(2) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(3) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(4) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(5) This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah.
(6) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
(7) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(8) After Japanese troops invaded the Chinese city of Nanking (now Nanjing) in 1937, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, Hirohito said he was "deeply satisfied" by the troops' courage in quickly seizing the city.
(9) And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages.
(10) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(11) These inspiring and courageous women are up against a highly resourced state that looks after its own.
(12) Congratulating Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat on having the courage to change, a Clintonite speciality, he went on: 'Above all, let us dedicate ourselves to your region's next generation.
(13) Alicia deserves praise for courageously standing up to Trump’s attacks.
(14) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(15) They’re losing fear and they’re gaining courage, especially from the military positions he’s taken.
(16) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
(17) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(18) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(19) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(20) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
Manhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
(n.) Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Birth control methods, such as vasectomy, conflict with attitudes about manhood in Peruvian society.
(2) "Poised at the awkward intersection of real life and fiction, and of boyhood and manhood, the narrator's journal and his first stories are 'full of young men with nothing much to do' and bleed into one another," considered Lucy Daniel in the Daily Telegraph.
(3) In February this year the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign and National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a consumer fraud complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that a Virginia-based group called People Can Change (PCC), which runs programmes such as a Journey Into Manhood is deceiving customers by claiming that conversion therapy works.
(4) Many young men end up losing the one thing they ‘go to the mountains’ to attain: their manhood.
(5) Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers ... they're everything Americans idealize about manhood.
(6) Having a police officer act out his presumption of your guilt, it seems, is so ubiquitous – even today – that it’s a rite of passage toward manhood for these black and brown boys.
(7) Many nations practise it as a rite, the time of its performance varying from soon after birth to early manhood.
(8) A girl that becomes pregnant before marriage will be scorned and shamed, while boys boast of their manhood.
(9) "I tend to think Khasi men feel diminished in their manhood compared with outsiders," she says.
(10) My beloved father, I was separated from you when I was a small child, not yet 13, but I am older now, and have attained manhood,” Hamza wrote in 2009.
(11) Kyrgios hits his forehand as if it is a statement of his manhood, all dressed up with deep-lunged exhortations, defying his opponent to hit it back harder if he dare.
(12) He says anyone interested in getting to grips with the deep-rooted disaffection and alienation among young men would do well to take "a much closer look" at A Band of Brothers' approach to helping young men make a healthy transition to manhood.
(13) His remarks, which are not translated, refer to the traditional Xhosa rites of passage which mark the transition from childhood to manhood – a subject seldom discussed in public.
(14) Doubts caused by his intersex status outweigh a manhood based on birth assignment, identity documents, rearing, socialisation, beard, penis and self-identification.
(15) West used to be scared of gay people, he said, but now, "authentic" and "secure in [his] manhood", he can "go to Paris [and] have conversations with people who are blatantly gay".
(16) They shake musical instruments made from calabash bowls strung from sticks to signify that they are emerging, circumcised, for a public celebration of manhood.
(17) He fled to Pakistan as a five-year-old to escape the Taliban and returned in manhood, at great personal risk, to press for his people’s human rights.
(18) Recommendations for reducing rape in the region include changing social norms, such as the normalisation of violence against women in many countries, promoting alternative notions of "manhood', ending impunity for men who commit rape, and cutting down on the use of violence to discipline children.
(19) However, the survey reveals a widespread lack of knowledge regarding the procedure, as well as negative perceptions or doubts about its effect on sexual performance, ability to do hard work, health, and manhood.
(20) Four perceived their fathers as having posed threats of physical or psychological annihilation to them, and five saw paternal threats to their manhood.