Drawing on psychoanalysis, Rochlin 'rewrites' masculinity in a way which makes a virtue of what was hitherto thought of as, or experienced as, a defect: its much remarked insecurity.

He was so much amused by it that he retaliated with a graphic account of Sir Nugent Fotherby's warm welcome to himself, which he had not hitherto thought in the least diverting.

Men have hitherto thought you magnanimous and wise, will you cast aside these titles?

Those first two hours with him thrilled her with excitement-they opened a new world of wondrous realities that she had hitherto thought of more as unattainable dreams than things which she herself might some day experience.

I had hitherto thought the face of this king impossible, but when I saw it in play I understood it.

Inorganic but with all the quantities we have hitherto thought only those of the organic and with others added.

'Why,' said Jack, with so wretched a look that Christy-Pallière, who had hitherto thought him a muff to mind having two young women at once, felt a wound in his heart.

A hundred people would go home tonight wondering whether trolls were really as bad as they had hitherto thought although, of course, this wouldn't actually stop them disliking them in any way whatsoever.

She was arbitrary, arrogant and at times pompous, a fault he had hitherto thought entirely a masculine one.

Extraordinary, really, that no one has hitherto thought to integrate the worlds of footwear and books.