virile •ˈvir-əl, ˈvir-ˌī(-ə)l• adjective
1. characterized by vitality and vigor
2. characteristic of a man
The word virile has appeared in 42 New York Occasions posts in the previous year, like on June twelve in the dance overview “Playing Dead, With Aplomb” by Brian Seibert:
In any production of “Romeo and Juliet” there is a good deal of taking part in dead. At the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday, when American Ballet Theater performed its 1st “Romeo” of the season, a single of the unmoving corpses near Juliet in the crypt was played by a guest star: Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a New York Democrat. She was ideal. That does not very count as news, but it was noteworthy in a overall performance of predictable excellence. Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 “Romeo” is a reliable construction, and Monday’s cast looked comfortable in roles played a lot of occasions just before.
Marcelo Gomes’s Romeo might be star-crossed, but he otherwise appeared blessed by fate: handsome, virile, gallant, good-natured. He was playful with the town harlots, and sort to them, as well. With his buddies he was one particular of the guys, not above their sophomoric pranks and their sporting frame of mind toward death, even right after he had met Juliet.
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