The role of a virile, axe-wielding, fur-bearing, cranium-smashing barbarian suited Schwarzenegger to a tee.

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It isn't as if these virile athletes have discovered that deep down they're actually softies.

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Less obviously, many birders get a virile competitive charge out of the sport.

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Either my deafening message tears an excruciating gash in your conscious mind or I am a black hole of virile taciturnity from which no message, conscious or unconscious, may escape.

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When I was an undergraduate in the mid-seventies, the 200 pioneer women in my class would talk about navigating the virile plains of Princeton as a precursor to professional success.

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In the past Apple has been so virile it has outperformed in such corrections, but that is not to say it avoided a fall when the market has corrected in the past.

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Refreshes for a couple of the carrier's early LTE phones debut in October, when the Thunderbolt gets pushed aside by the virile HTC Vigor and LG gets a redo with the Revolution 2.

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Machismo is idolised in the culture of the virile gaucho or cowboy riding the pampas on his horse, or the well-dressed city slickers who are the subject of so many sad tango songs.

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The newly appointed, self-promoting Kessler was hungry to make an example of an iconic company and to appear on the evening news in a virile demonstration that he was tough at enforcing the law.

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What earns such a virile prize?

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