"Not another word, Julia," he said with fine masculine authority.

One of the young men, testing his masculine authority, had offered an alternate version - that the moons had been brought from other worlds.

He confronts her trying to prove his masculine authority, but soon breaks at Gloria's strictness.

The heads of the church could not allow any irreverence or opposition to masculine authority.

At the core of such family murders were male attempts to preserve masculine authority.

She'd always reacted poorly to masculine authority.

Often, the men cited the difficulties of dealing with independent women while trying to maintain the traditional masculine authority they feel is expected of them.

Knifed, not painted, it is the very embodiment of masculine authority.

Men, their height, their masculine authority, never bothered Maggie.

Kibwetere was just a figurehead, intended to impose masculine authority over the followers and enhance the cult's public relations.