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  • There's Bernard, a curmudgeon alcoholic who hates just about everyone, especially customers; there's long-haired Manny, a bumbling assistant that is as quirky as he is kind; and there's Fran, man-hungry and fierce, as well as Bernard's only true friend.

    Lord of the Rings: Return of the Lapse maryrobinette 2010

  • There's Bernard, a curmudgeon alcoholic who hates just about everyone, especially customers; there's long-haired Manny, a bumbling assistant that is as quirky as he is kind; and there's Fran, man-hungry and fierce, as well as Bernard's only true friend.

    Be on the look out for things that make you laugh pabba 2010

  • From biblical temptresses to blood-sucking vampires, from the sirens of Greek mythology whose seductive singing lured many a sailor to his death to the succubi who appear in men's dreams, women have been portrayed as man-hungry predators throughout the history of literature.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • Then there's the religious zealot mother (Whoopi Goldberg) whose daughters are, chronologically, a man-hungry bartender (Thandie Newton) and an innocent teen (Tessa Thompson) who gets pregnant the first time she has sex.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls Marshall Fine 2010

  • From biblical temptresses to blood-sucking vampires, from the sirens of Greek mythology whose seductive singing lured many a sailor to his death to the succubi who appear in men's dreams, women have been portrayed as man-hungry predators throughout the history of literature.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • From biblical temptresses to blood-sucking vampires, from the sirens of Greek mythology whose seductive singing lured many a sailor to his death to the succubi who appear in men's dreams, women have been portrayed as man-hungry predators throughout the history of literature.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • And it came at the same time as “man-hungry lunatic torches the corpse of the pregnant woman” over at DC.

    Quick pamphlet comments 2009

  • Betty Garrett, a comic actress who played the man-hungry love interest of Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton in movie musicals of the late 1940s and decades later had recurring roles in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "Laverne & Shirley," died Feb. 12 of an aortic aneurysm at a Los Angeles hospital.

    Comedienne Betty Garrett, '40s co-star of Frank Sinatra, dies at 91 Emma Brown 2011

  • Kanji tough guy vs. sissy boy, Yukiko refined vs. man-hungry, Naoto child vs. adult, etc.

    After Several Days Of Rain SVGL 2009

  • Then there's the religious zealot mother (Whoopi Goldberg) whose daughters are, chronologically, a man-hungry bartender (Thandie Newton) and an innocent teen (Tessa Thompson) who gets pregnant the first time she has sex.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls Marshall Fine 2010

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