world-shaker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If not exactly a world-shaker, this one is able, sophisticated and full of pianistic beans.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President's own speech was not the world-shaker the White House indicated it might be, but it was a simple and earnest restatement of the Administration's foreign policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tell what will bind thee, Thou young world-shaker, Up vault our oceans, Down fall our forests.
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy
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