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
  • Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The latter film looks at a seminal period in the life of James Baldwin, the extraordinary essayist, novelist and playwright who was born 100 years ago this year.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Apps for novelists and book authors typically go for between $50 and $60 for a one-time license or per year as a subscription.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Mann was aiming at his brother Heinrich, a novelist and an essayist of nearly equal renown, whose liberal politics led him to support Germany’s enemies, France and Britain.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • As if the venue weren’t gay enough, literati from playwright Jeremy O. Harris to Evan Ross Katz — the social-media-age Cindy Adams — are in attendance to toast the film.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Their kids will have their own storyteller and learn to respect their elders!
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This project brings together front-line storytellers and journalists chronicling this unprecedented moment for American women, families and communities.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There’s a recurrent overstating of baseball’s significance: the satirist Ring Lardner called it the World Serious.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This is where satirists like Stewart can help fill in the gaps: By juxtaposing populist authoritarians’ glittering generalities with the ugly reality of life under authoritarianism.
    Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 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
  • Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel, the movie stars Ewan McGregor as a boyish fabulist and Billy Crudup as his son who, years later, tries to understand who his father really was.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024

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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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