thespian
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While he adjusted to life as a thespian pretty quickly, play-punching was a matter of not mixing messages for the former wrestling champion.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Undeterred by this vote of no confidence, both actors decamped to New York where they shared a flat with another aspiring thespian, Robert Duvall.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
To be sure, there is no one in uniform today possessed of Billy Mitchell’s thespian attributes; and Calvin Coolidge was, comparatively speaking, a minor-league retributionist.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2025
Is Timothée Chalamet a sensitive thespian or a swaggy hypebeast?
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2023
Was the parrot—this thespian parrot, impersonating a pirate’s parrot, with a miniature costume eye patch covering one beady little bird eye—was this talented avian of the stage howling?
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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