uninitiate

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Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024

Without hearing a shot fired, a man could, by arranging his area ribbons, marksmanship medals, cheap commendations and awards, appear in the eyes of the uninitiate as a combination Sergeant York-Commando Kelly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Francis P. Garvan signs a check, document or letter with his swift script, which reads to the uninitiate Francis P. Gaway, his signature stands for himself & wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poker dice, for the benefit of the uninitiate, have the Queen on one side in blue, like the Queen in a pack of cards, the King in red and the Knave in black.

From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger