patrician
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She holds a patrician bearing that comes naturally to Pfeiffer and a kind of full-bodied humanity that makes the actor an ageless romantic lead.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Born the son of a patrician in the early 15th century, in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg was originally trained as a goldsmith and metallurgist.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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