mythmaker
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Most famously, Wagner was a mythmaker who remains relevant for our time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
I would never say this was Adams’s fault — he was a pioneer, a mythmaker and clearly a photographer of genius.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2018
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 Ingersoll, Robert Green
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