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
He’s a free thinker who strongly wanted this trial and who, apart from everything, really does risk his life every day.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2021
The truly free thinker was said to be one who believes in what he knows or thinks, but only as a working view to something else.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd
