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For instance: Anyone who’s seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” knows it’s not the viridian vanquisher whose wrath Gawain should fear, but the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog!

The most urgent painting here is one of the Met’s very first purchases: Anthony van Dyck’s “Saint Rosalia,” vanquisher of a 17th-century epidemic, whom I’ve adopted as my Covid protectress.

We emphasized what a vanquishable opponent Hillary Clinton was because that diminished the significance of the vanquishing and the vanquisher.

The historian and former war correspondent Scott Anderson frames his history of the early CIA with two dates: 1944, when the United States was at its peak of wartime influence, the democratic vanquisher of a global fascist threat; and 1956, when the Eisenhower administration stood idly by as the Soviet Union crushed a democratic uprising in Hungary.

In his day, Winfield Scott was praised by no less an authority than the Duke of Wellington, vanquisher of Napoleon at Waterloo, as “the greatest living soldier.”