brooder

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Palmer was golf’s first man of the people — Arnie’s Army — while Hogan had been known as a brooder who kept to himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 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

Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival”—The Québécois director of “Prisoners” and “Sicario,” Anthony Lane writes, is “both a brooder and a tease.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2017

The nonprofit theater, housed in the former Astor Library in NoHo, also acts as a meeting place, a public forum, a writer’s brooder and a watering hole.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2017

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

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck