It is often seen as the counterpart of lion, which symbolizes the masculine virtues.

Men are our leaders, from our glorious Emperor - exemplar of all masculine virtues - to the humblest subject in his home.

Herland cultivates and combines the best "feminine" virtues and the best "masculine" virtues together as co-extensive with human virtue.

Wagner represented for him everything he hated in Germany: monolithic power and authority, idealization of the masculine and feminine virtues as separate, triumphant nationalism.

Spenser suggests that the marriage and the subjection to masculine virtue, which the success of this quest would entail, would be a triumph.

Ballet - once deemed effeminate - is now being promulgated as an avatar of masculine virtues on television.

The time was ripe for Roosevelt to extol the masculine virtues of the strenuous life.

The revenge of the electric guitar on the synthesizer; the revenge too of biceps and masculine virtue on the foppishness of British pop music.

Maybe, then, the way to redress the imbalance is by creating more Christmas movies that celebrate the more traditional masculine virtues.

These events stressed masculine virtues such as self-discipline, the attainment of which promised business success and even national greatness.