pamphleteer

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Recent Examples of pamphleteer By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches. Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024 However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024 His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate. Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024 Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog. Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022 Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law. Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020 When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters. Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
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Noun
  • Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • By that point, Patrick White, arguably Australia’s greatest novelist, had spent much of his life in England.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • What is the likelihood Jacob McNeal will win the Nobel Prize this year … GPT: As of my last knowledge update, Jacob McNeal, an American novelist and playwright, had not yet been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The initial suit was brought against playwright David Adjmi as well as the play’s commercial Broadway producers, the theater owner and nonprofit developers of the play, which opened on Broadway in April 2024 and is running through Jan. 12, 2025.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Thirteen awards were handed out on the night, with actor, playwright and author Zawe Ashton hosting the ceremony.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Motels have long been symbols of rock-and-roll rebellion, places for wanderers and storytellers seeking escape from convention.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Finn is among those composers who followed in Stephen Sondheim's footsteps by forging intricate and psychologically potent music and lyrics; genius storyteller Lapine also collaborated with Sondheim.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan.
    Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Ingenious, by Richard Munson Benjamin Franklin isn’t simply a skilled political thinker, diplomat, and satirist in Richard Munson’s biography.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
    Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
  • Still, for Beyoncé the filmmaker and autobiographer, one narrative-building feat seems to remain out of reach.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The House expelled the fabulist George Santos for a fabric of falsehoods, but his lies put no one’s life at risk.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024

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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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