His virile qualities and his religion both lose their best when he leaves the desert.
Haxthausen observed that handicapped and retarded Russia commands every geographic condition and national trait necessary for virile and expansive political power.
But though his success, had he continued in the profession, would doubtless have been of the very first order, his oratory would never have reached the warm and virile splendor of Erskine, or the weighty magnificence of Webster.
It was a jovial, virile theme which the violins took up after the wind instruments, plucked it to pieces in their capricious way, and gradually led it over into the realm of dreams.
Her virile expression was rather displeasing to him.
He enjoyed the life of the salon very much, but it did not in the least awe or impress him; and he was of too virile fibre, too essentially a man, to be long contented with it alone.
They were great men; but it was less the greatness of mere genius than that springing from the union of strong, virile qualities with steadfast devotion to a high ideal.
He is also a pattern father, expecting great things from Popenjoy, and resolving that the child shall be subjected to proper discipline as soon as he is transferred from feminine to virile teaching.
But the virile collars budding out over it perhaps supplied what was wanting.
We fail to see that in letters, as in life, the great prizes are not to the polished, but to the virileand the strong.
The former lived in an age of criticism, and when the poets loved poetry more than they did life and things; the latter, in a more virile time, and in "the full stream of the world.
He determined upon resisting the heresy with all the virile courage of his colossal bulk.
Still each arresting phrase, each felicitous expression, the dramatic ring of some virile word, the broad onward sweep of stately prose in narrative or sustained description, not only charmed her ear but challenged her creative faculty.
On this particular morning Damaris elected to explore to the Near East, in the vehicle of Eöthen's virile and luminous prose.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred normal, virile men are more or less nervous when they first step up for rapid fire.
On the contrary, it reveals a virile personality, a thinker and worker of a disposition that goes far to explain the adoration accorded him by his troops.
In at least one sense the situation renders tribute to the virile qualities of the Uruguayan.
It is a treatise which will confirm the highest expectations of those who have expected much from this alert observer and virile thinker.
A low birth rate may be secured, not at the cost of virtue, but by a self-discipline that is quite in harmony with virtue and is certain to give to it a virile character which it loses when men put little restraint on their impulses.
He brought to it the torrent of impetuous energies amassed during a full andvirile life.
I should say they were hard," sounded the rather virile voice of Rabot's big consort.
The intellect which we have a right to require in a woman, in order to love her, is not the same as the virile intellect.
But these superbly attractive, dark-eyed slaves at length captured their captors, and the Turk became master of the Arab and the most virileexponent of the Arabian faith and civilization.
Probably she was not virile in any true sense of the term, since in the traditions of her people she does not seem to have made for herself a place as leader that at all corresponds to the rank of her husband.
For, of all women who ever lived in Egypt probably none can be given so high a place for various attainments and virile powers as must be accorded to Hypatia.
In my virile age I had a great ambition to raise myself in the Church, and therein to obtain the highest dignities, because no life appeared to me more splendid.
Indeed, there had scarcely sprouted upon his visage the hair which imprints upon a man virile majesty.
As the fronds die they incline earthwards, each weary with the burden of a new and virile generation--some of which float down stream to foreign parts, some create a colony round the parent.
The accent is just without that seeking for virile energy which too often spoils the most charming qualities.
The Scandinavian and Teutonic blood was too virile and noble to be cruel; and the science of torture was never developed among them.
Perhaps from the time of this Pazzi commission may be dated the evidences which are found in some of Botticelli's work of a closer study than heretofore of the virile methods and energetic types of Castagno.
If the same virile and spirited response is insisted upon in such places as is demanded in ordinary passages, the effect will be greatly improved, and the singing moreover will not be nearly so likely to fall from the pitch.
Rhythm is the spark of life in music, therefore, woe to the composer who attempts to substitute ethereal harmonies for virile rhythms as a general principle of musical construction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: combative; forceful; heroic; male; manly; potent; tough; virile
