Maori
noun
Mao·ri
ˈmau̇(-ə)r-ē 
plural Maori or Maoris
1
: a member of a Polynesian people native to New Zealand
2
: the Polynesian language of the Maori people
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Where The Convert does excel is in its treatment of the Maori characters, even the most barbaric of whom are afforded dimensions mostly lacking in their British counterparts.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2024
Ignore that, since Guy Pearce’s 1830s British preacher man Thomas Munro is a morally complex White guy who gets caught in the crosshairs of two feuding Maori tribes.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
And George Henare, a Maori actor from New Zealand of great repute with a classical background, is in it as well.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
It’s been used for centuries by the Maori as a natural and effective remedy to treat everything from wounds to sore throats.
—Mélanie Defouilloy, Vogue, 26 June 2024
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2024
Ignore that, since Guy Pearce’s 1830s British preacher man Thomas Munro is a morally complex White guy who gets caught in the crosshairs of two feuding Maori tribes.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
And George Henare, a Maori actor from New Zealand of great repute with a classical background, is in it as well.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
It’s been used for centuries by the Maori as a natural and effective remedy to treat everything from wounds to sore throats.
—Mélanie Defouilloy, Vogue, 26 June 2024
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Maori
noun
Mao·ri
ˈmau̇(ə)r-ē
plural Maori or Maoris
1
: a member of an Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
2
: the language of the Maori
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