backwoodsman
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He managed to keep working in small projects in theater, films and TV, returning to the mainstream in 1983 with “Cross Creek,” in which he played table-smashing backwoodsman Marsh Turner.
From Fox News ● Jul. 10, 2019
“I felt every bit a backwoodsman, and it threw me off the mark.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
The Descent works so well because it adds a creepy Darwinian overtone to the well-worn horror staple of the inbred, bestial backwoodsman.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2016
Among them were “The Hunt,” in which a recently deceased backwoodsman is saved by his beloved hunting dog from accidentally wandering into Hell.
From Time ● Mar. 25, 2016
Now a certain portion of this officiousness is highly praiseworthy, but too much of it is a great annoyance to the victimized gentlemen—especially to those who, as a backwoodsman would say, are certainly "some pumpkins."
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
He was more than capable of inspiring his fellow rough-hewn backwoodsmen to join his command and leading them into battle, often to their detriment, but great leadership is only one aspect of command.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2022
Taxidermy, long the domain of backwoodsmen and museum employees, is enjoying a vogue lately among young urbanites, due in part to a back-to-the-land revival that also favors beards, flannel and butchery workshops.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2010
To the Carolina citizens who clustered about him to celebrate the victory of provincial backwoodsmen over British loyalist militia at Kings Mountain 150 years ago, President Hoover spoke of the "ideals and ideas of America."
From Time Magazine Archive
The blunt backwoodsmen blurt out their resentment at not being allowed to go home, kill some wild meat for their families and return to fight in the spring.
From Time Magazine Archive
But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons, Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
