Cavemanny

It doesn’t seem reasonable that they should have thus comported themselves when they believed the lady was a poor, addle-pated, inferior, little creature, who wasn’t allowed to be educated, was understood to have no political significance, was weak and yielding and gratefully ready to throw herself upon the mercy of any good man’s protection—and then go and get bossy and brazen and cave-manny and crude in an age when he may at least seriously doubt her complete inferiority and significance.

Kenneth Preuss returned home from a hunting trip with a ten-day beard last Sunday, very cave-mannny, but it will take more than that to subdue Edith’s literary exaltation these days.

Thank goodness for sweat and the glands that produce it. Without them, we’d still be running around all furry and cavemanny.

I’d just read a news story about how women are getting more and more beautiful while men remain as pathetically cavemanny as ever.

I get the impression that there were a lot of volcanoes in those olden times, although I might be thinking all the way back to cavemanny times.

That dark voice tugged at her. Connor, her bodyguard. Her big, strong, cavemanny bodyguard.

He was beginning to sound a little cavemanny and it made her stomach tickle.

“I guess I remember there was something very physical, very masculine, about a group of 100 dudes going into the woods to train,” he [Russell Harbaugh] says. “(Coach) Creighton would take us to these camps to start the year. Wouldn’t use a ball. It was a week of obstacle courses, up to your knees in mud. Like, it got kind of cave-mannny, and I liked that feeling, but I think that’s different from what you’re talking about.[…]”