brooder

Example Sentences

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Kristen Radtke is a brooder; few would call her a blithe spirit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2021

Stulbarg is an excellent brooder, and Hope Davis vamps it up for whatever Evil Gods to whom she sacrifices incense to get into character as Gina Baxter, the scheming Lady MacBeth to Stuhlbarg's mobster.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020

Harry has a puppet master, a brooder named Campbell, who happens to be a cousin of Cassandra and Allie, as well as a total creep.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019

Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Chickens were in the brooder house, and the garden was in and we eded.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck