philanderer
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Events come to a head and the skillfully written climax is so distant and chilly that it speaks to a waning of interest in the figure of the philanderer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
I could tell them he wasn’t an American veteran at all—he was Canadian, and he was actually pretty rabidly anti-American, an oil engineer–turned–environmentalist, a serial philanderer.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2024
Jacquot reappraises the notorious philanderer by depicting him not as a raucous pleasure-seeker but a weathered sad sack living in exile.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021
They are orchestral showpieces that capture the sheer strangeness of Ibsen’s play about the fantastical adventures of a ne’er-do-well philanderer, and they are the Grieg that has most captured the fancy of popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2018
Thorpe accepted his share with the caution of the wise man, while Dodge, not a whit less capable, took his as a philanderer.
From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham
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