statesman

The novelist Hermann Hesse and the statesman Winston Churchill, both butterfly lovers, figure into her thumbnail survey, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Sowing behind-the-scenes stories about how he’s actually approaching it like a responsible statesman could play to his advantage.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

The club have mainly targeted players aged 20 and under from abroad, having already recruited Jaouen, Sean Steur, Bazoumana Toure and Aladji Bamba, so Hornicek will feel like something of an elder statesman in comparison.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Ridiculous” is C.K.’s way of letting the world know that when you brush aside his Teflon-coated fame and elder statesman standing, the 58-year-old star is really just old and exhausted.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

She was also an advocate for “free love,” a blackmailer, an accused bigamist, possibly a prostitute, and a spiritualist who claimed she channeled the spirit of Demosthenes, a statesman from ancient Greece.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

If Gandhi elevated the hunger strike into a moral weapon, BR Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen, was deeply sceptical of it in independent India.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

While both statesmen were deists who believed in predestination and embraced the rational philosophy of the Enlightenment, they had different conceptions of what enlightened government meant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

Peter Stolypin, one of the most accomplished Russian statesmen of the era, loathed Rasputin but couldn’t convince the czar to banish him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The elder statesmen of proto punk isn’t just another act on the Coachella bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Some of them had a notion, these statesmen and officials who greeted me effusively, but I had none.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin