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
Britain is depicted by these critical friends as a well-meaning, if blundering, commercialist, whose imperial adventures, like the amorous adventures of races unblessed by puritan Kultur, must be regarded as venial sins.
From The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin by Boyd, Ernest Augustus
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