homme
Americannoun
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a man.
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a human being.
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“One test of un homme sérieux,” Christopher Hitchens wrote, “is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
About critics, he declared: “One test of un homme sérieux is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2015
These I’ve seen translated thus: I come across — pour un homme — as not terribly handsome, But nevertheless – pour un homme — quite seductive.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2013
Amalric's ramshackle appearance and flirtatiousness can conceal the fact that when it comes to his work – directing, especially – this is one homme sérieux.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2010
I found then that he was not the galant homme I had thought him, but something quite different.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette
In passing, the Northampton man asked what lineouts were like when hommes were hommes and Moore used the immortal phrase "15 Eric Cantonas" to describe the opposition.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
Our musical artistes have always been les hommes d’affaires—but where yesteryear’s stars were discreet about their grubby marketplace machinations, Usher and company flaunt them.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2012
The title, by the way, is explained by an epigraph from Balzac, to the effect that in the desert there is nothing: "C'est Dieu sans les hommes."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2011
Evening's best laugh: a sign over a box reading 40 hommes, 8 chevaux.
From Time Magazine Archive
Riquet begins by barking fiercely when “des hommes inconnus, mal vêtus, injurieux et farouches” invade his beloved house, and ends in being lifted in silent misery and shut up in a portmanteau.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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