epigrammatist

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Noun
  • Her counterpart is Nigel's love interest, Portia (Autumn Hurlbert), who defies her double entendre-dropping Puritan father, Brother Jeremiah (Scott Cote), to pursue the sonneteer.
    Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • A sonnet is addressed to an indifferent object of passion; even if the actual lover warms up, the sonneteer can’t become too easily complacent—a dark lady suddenly sunny produces no one’s idea of a poem.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
Noun
  • Her second film, The Lyricist Wannabe, is a semi-autobiographical comedy drama about a young woman attempting to become a Canto-pop lyricist.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The unlikely revolutionaries The lyricist is named Ayman al-Masri, 52.
    Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While Minnesota is mentioned in passing in the recent Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the story largely takes place from the early 1960s to 1965 as the legendary troubadour rose to prominence on the New York City folk music scene.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Sons of Town Hall Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook The Sons of Town are George Ulysses Brown (Ben Parker, who’s British) and Josiah Chester Jones (David Berkeley, who’s American), 19th century vagabond troubadours.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Epigrammatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epigrammatist. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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