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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
Noun
  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold chronicles the life of the essayist, novelist, screenwriter and critic Joan Didon through personal stories from behind the influential work.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Buy Now: Second Life on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (May 13) Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong’s third novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a big-hearted ode to second chances.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The insider crowd at the opening party at a modernist house in Baldwin Hills included a healer, a graphic novelist, a magician, a rapper.
    Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This version features the star casting of Nick Jonas as the novelist Jamie, with Adrienne Warren (of Tina) as the shiksa goddess Cathy.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • John Haman, a playwright and teacher who lives in Hot Springs Village, was one of Trieschmann's Hendrix classmates.
    Rachel O'Neal, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The playwright writes the script (the words and movements the actors should perform) and the director brings the script to life by telling people how to perform.
    The Week Junior, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • From iconic performers and gifted storytellers to fearless activists and pioneering visionaries, these figures left an indelible mark on the world and our communities.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Jan. 2025
  • On behalf of all of our readers, thank you, Dan, for being Baltimore’s voice, advocate, and an exceptional reporter and storyteller.
    Trif Alatzas, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Opened by Irishmen Mike Jewell and Danny McDonald in 1995 and named after the Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, the East Village’s Swift Hibernian Lounge checks all those boxes.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In his second theatrical film, multi-hyphenate Mehran Modiri, one of Iran’s most beloved TV satirists, turns his hand to the thriller genre with mixed results.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Then there are the fabulist reimaginings, like the Coen Brothers classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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