mythmaker
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Most famously, Wagner was a mythmaker who remains relevant for our time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
Tom is the hypnotic mythmaker, the egomaniac gilded with shiny humility.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2017
While Acker gave dozens of candid interviews in her lifetime, and returned relentlessly to her own biography in her fiction, she was also a resolute mythmaker, burnishing her legend with the determination of a Dylan.
From Slate ● May 4, 2015
Ryan was part reporter and part mythmaker, rooting for the success of the home team in part because it made for the best story—which is to say, he was a sportswriter.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 20, 2014
The next thing that came in the world—the next man—was the mythmaker.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Robert Green Ingersoll
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