engage
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Though more engagé than restful, Menand’s “The Free World” is comparably diverting, even at the basement level of the weird factoid.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2021
But as with the title novella, the ironies here are deepened by our foreknowledge of the world that actually awaits the poet: laissez-faire where he wants to be engagé, iron-fisted where he would be free.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021
We confuse him with the truly engagé Enlightenment and Romantic writers who came long afterward, as they came to confuse his briny Bordeaux with their winey one.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
The 32-year-old American illustrator is a cross between a photojournalist chasing hot spots and a 19th-century écrivain engagé who champions causes with art.
From Economist • Jan. 7, 2016
He would have paused to exchange words, but at sight of Père Allouez’s black robe, he gave swift command to his engagé, and the two disappeared as though fleeing from the devil.
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Parrish, Randall
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