commercialist
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Not to go all Charlie Brown here – and yes, a Peanuts-themed fireplace exists on the Interwebs – but might we introspect about these commercialist and consumerist bells and whistles leading us astray?
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
He is not a social realist in the Mike Leigh or Ken Loach vein, nor is he a Hollywood-bound commercialist like Christopher Nolan, or an upper-crust merchant in the Merchant Ivory mould.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary Roper, no eminent commercialist, is prepared for major amputations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is a shrewd commercialist, yet he has found time, no one knows how, to master several languages and to run the whole octave of self-culture.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Herbert Newton Casson
And, in principle, these hard-nosed commercialists are on board.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course there were votaries of pleasure of all ranks there—rakish young surgeons, fast young clerks and commercialists, occasional dandies of the Guard regiments, and the rest.
From The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
Another way is to deliver art from the clutches of its worshippers, and by worshippers I mean the idolaters and the commercialists of art.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
Of course there were votaries of pleasure of all ranks there—rakish young surgeons, fast young clerks and commercialists, occasional dandies of the guard regiments, and the rest.
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
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