prosaist

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Noun
  • Interestingly, many of the elementary schools built here from 1886-1891 were named for poets, including John Greenleaf Whittier.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Returning to these communities’ intimate relationship with sand can provide a powerful new perspective on urban development, according to poet and literary critic Joanne Leow.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to Othello, several other shows were in previews: Purpose, the new play from Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, began previews at the Helen Hayes, taking $300,892 for seven performances, filling 94% of seats.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture the illusion of consensus.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • House of Talkies is connected to Jain’s The Story Ink, which specializes in book-to-screen adaptations, represents over 500 stories, 200 authors, and 100 screenwriters.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Moonlighting frequently broke the fourth wall, with many of the episodes featuring the actors facing the cameras and making direct references to the audience, the scriptwriters, the network and the series itself.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Along with touch-ups, The Royal Tenenbaums star also disliked notes from studios and scriptwriters, usually rejecting them altogether in favor of his own acting instincts, Sonnenfeld said.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
    Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The development of modern Ukrainian literature was spearheaded by Taras Shevchenko, a former serf who would become the national bard.
    Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2013
  • Long before filming on A Complete Unknown even began, those involved in Dylan’s records and publishing wondered what impact a film starring Timothée Chalamet as the bard would have on his streaming and record sales.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Source: The National Weather Service This article was generated by the Kansas City Star Bot, software that analyzes structured information, such as data, and applies it to articles based on templates created by journalists in the newsroom.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2025
  • In Nicole Cuffy’s new novel, journalist Faruq Zaidi embeds himself inside a California cult following the death of his devout Muslim father.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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