Everyman

Example Sentences

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Frank Capra, the multiple Academy Award winner whose everyman heroes symbolized the American spirit triumphing over mercenary or venal big business and big government, died Tuesday at his desert retirement home.

From Los Angeles Times

Workplace movies “give you very quickly an identifiable everyman or everywoman—somebody we can relate to,” says Ben Mankiewicz, the Turner Classic Movies host and great-nephew of legendary Hollywood screenwriter and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

From The Wall Street Journal

After a loss, the grieving Everyman finds no option but to keep living—he is, as one character says, “just waiting to see what we’ve been left here for.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, he mines humor from his observations as a Black everyman from Birmingham, Ala., with a reporter’s eye for detail.

From The Wall Street Journal

Theater veteran Elizabeth Franz, who won a Tony Award for her bold reinvention as the wife of the everyman title character in the 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times