Pilgrim's Progress
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Will he take the Pilgrim’s Progress path to greatness and spiritual fulfillment?
From Golf Digest • Mar. 24, 2020
Kavanaugh attended Yale College and Law School, and then began a conservative Pilgrim’s Progress.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2019
All these manifestations of anti-Jewish feeling form the backdrop for a didactic autobiography, a kind of "Pilgrim's Progress" in which Dershowitz plays Christian, wandering through a landscape flickering with old, familiar demons.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2018
The central plot of “Lady Dynamite” tracks Bamford’s Pilgrim’s Progress toward a balanced life in Hollywood, braiding together three separate timelines, each filmed in a slightly different style.
From The New Yorker • May 25, 2016
“The idea of being afraid of you! Well, you see we used to play Pilgrim’s Progress, and we have been going on with it in earnest, all winter and summer.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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