bushranger

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Recent Examples of bushranger And none more, maybe, than for Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger whose body-armored exploits have made him a muse since the dawn of cinema. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020 Ned gets his shot at revenge against O’Neil in a scene that plays like an unnerving castration fantasy, egged on by Harry Power (a superb Russell Crowe), the famous bushranger who takes the boy under wing. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020 The drama follows the ne'er-do-well's boyhood as an accomplice to a criminal bushranger (Russell Crowe), Ned's contempt for the law when his mother (Essie Davis) is unfairly imprisoned, and his anarchic days as an adult running a rebellious gang. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020 The world's first feature film, called The Story of the Kelly Gang, is an hour-plus romp about a band of outlaw Australian bushrangers. Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020 But the fateful Glenrowan showdown with an incoming trainload of cops doesn't go as planned, as anyone familiar with the bushranger's legend will know. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
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Noun
  • Thankfully, the woodsman (Ansu Kabia) has a crisis of conscience and tells Snow to book it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Plunkett is not the first critic to trouble the popular conception of Frost as a wise woodsman dispensing comfort and inspiration.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • How did Ashley describe this mountain man character?
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Though Park makes of Finn a charming, ex-hippie mountain man, indulgent of Jesse’s quest because he’s found solace in the redwoods from a tragedy of his own, Becca, having perhaps too conveniently also faced tragedy, counters with a passion for protocol.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Wang and his three crewmates—filmmaker Jannicke Mikkelsen, roboticist Rabea Rogge and polar explorer Eric Philips—all rode in Resilience, the Crew Dragon vehicle that has flown three other crews (two of them private) to space.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2025

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