free thinker
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As Nancy’s torn between being the picture-perfect housewife and the rebellious free thinker, Kidman recalls the sharp-tongued Joanna Eberhart from “The Stepford Wives,” who fought against her community’s robotic femininity until it consumed her.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
In recent years, he has increasingly alienated himself from the astronomical community, painting himself as a brave free thinker challenging the close-minded dogmas of the broader scientific world.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2021
McCain's lifelong reputation as free thinker, never to be intimidated, was very much alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2018
Any man who lived in the eighteenth century was primâ facie a fool; if a free thinker, his case was all but hopeless; but if a French free thinker, it was desperate indeed.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
