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In the Southwest, his revivalistic zeal appealed deeply to tenant farmers and miners.

From Time • Nov. 23, 2015

The Best Plays These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: Drama RAIN—Jeanne Eagels still presents powerfully this study of the revivalistic complex showing itself up in Pago Pago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereas Jackson tended toward a more volatile and pulpit-thumping style reminiscent of an itinerant Presbyterian minister in the revivalistic mode, Smith preferred the more measured cadences of the South Carolina aristocrat steeped in Ciceronian formalities.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

There is a great deal of pure romantic temper roused by these revivalistic outbreaks in provincial England.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

My cautious colleagues are dreadfully afraid of anything which they call revivalistic, and, indeed, of anything which is unconventional.

From The Upton Letters by Benson, Arthur Christopher