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  One who wants can give and give and give — yet we seek that one soft word, one telling glance, from the one who withholds or unmans us from our strapping selfhood, whose neglect spurs such ranges of self-hatred or love.

The August Heartbreak Suite of Sorrow's Poems 2010

So I sat down, and put myself right with a brandy; mention of Bismarck always unmans me, but the fact was I was curious, not least about the delectable Mamselle Caprice.

Watershed 2010

Because for the first time since earliest childhood, pain and fear burned together within me, and I felt what common men feel that so unmans them on the battlefield, that makes them fodder for a Mueller's hungry sword.

Enjoyment 2010

But I think the unarticulated fear is that Google has forced the pace of change in a way that unmans them.

The Hapless Seed 2007

But I think the unarticulated fear is that Google has forced the pace of change in a way that unmans them.

The Hapless Seed 2007

But I think the unarticulated fear is that Google has forced the pace of change in a way that unmans them.

The Hapless Seed 2007

The cystoscopy that unmans him, the “little surprise” that Peter Romain receives from his doctor “to get the inside story on you,” is a test to measure the health of the urethra and bladder.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

The cystoscopy that unmans him, the “little surprise” that Peter Romain receives from his doctor “to get the inside story on you,” is a test to measure the health of the urethra and bladder.

Writing about the certainty of death 2008

The always vicious Steve Gilliard unmans a Freeper trackback artist who dared to take him on in his New Yorker bile-risen blasting of scam artist and homefront apologist Karl Rove (still employed by our President after disgracing his nation in so public a manner).

Tom Watson: The Sunday Papers 2008

Their strength he withers, and unmans their souls.

The Iliad of Homer 2003