mythmaker
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Most famously, Wagner was a mythmaker who remains relevant for our time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
But this was at cross purposes with the larger intent of the exhibition, which is to extricate Lautrec from his reputation as the quintessential mythmaker of Montmartre and the racy side of Belle Époque Paris.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
So long as Lucas was the chief mythmaker and commercial guardian of “Star Wars,” he never had that luxury.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
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
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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