I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
When you're a man you try and be macho.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Macho does not prove mucho.
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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