Meaning of manscape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A view of a group of people.
2. A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
3. An image, normally artistic, of the male form.

Examples

“I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.”

“The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion. The men are different, but the manscape is the same.”

“It is to be hoped that their [the Meridian Gay Theatre's] next effort — the New York premiere of Something More, a "manscape" of gay life in the past 10 years — will match the previous success of Stray Dog Story and Street Theater.”

“At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl.”

“And the manscape is our realm, our spatial destiny where we must act and respond, where for our lifetime we must be who we will be.”

“In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa."”

“Nearly everywhere is a Manscape now, and we need not mourn the fact. There is still plenty which is beautiful and a solace[…]”

“As cities grow they try to claim landscapes for themselves, changing them gradually into "manscapes".”

“For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape, with the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda […]”

“Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche.”

“no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.”

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