The point of the campaign was the cost of avoiding medical advice out of macho pride.

Gabe's subsequent guilt, which does not mix well with the macho pride his brother schools him in, propels the rest of the narrative.

"Enough with the macho pride," Susan tells him, but he won't take any money from her.

"Women go shopping," I had told her with macho pride.

And he'd understood for the first time the macho pride of the strutting male who has satisfied his woman.

Some kind of macho pride, presumably.

Relationships become human; the women smile and Mr. O'Neill, the sole male, grins with macho pride.

Those who went into the pits wore the macho pride of bullfighters.

What's wrong, Dane, did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more?

We haven't got time for macho pride.