commercialist
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commercialists
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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
Secretary Roper, no eminent commercialist, is prepared for major amputations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since when have you turned commercialist, petite soeur?
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
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
No sportsman needs a larger bag than the revised schedule; and commercialists should not be allowed to kill big game anywhere, at any time.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Compromises between feudalists and commercialists were effected, and a sort of constitutionalism became the basis of the reconstructed governments.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
By the commercialists I mean those who prey upon the ignorance of the unsophisticated, with pictures created by the esthetic habit of, or better to say, through the banality of, "artistic" temperament.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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