bushranger

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Recent Examples of bushranger And none more, maybe, than for Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger whose body-armored exploits have made him a muse since the dawn of cinema. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020 Ned gets his shot at revenge against O’Neil in a scene that plays like an unnerving castration fantasy, egged on by Harry Power (a superb Russell Crowe), the famous bushranger who takes the boy under wing. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020 The drama follows the ne'er-do-well's boyhood as an accomplice to a criminal bushranger (Russell Crowe), Ned's contempt for the law when his mother (Essie Davis) is unfairly imprisoned, and his anarchic days as an adult running a rebellious gang. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020 The world's first feature film, called The Story of the Kelly Gang, is an hour-plus romp about a band of outlaw Australian bushrangers. Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020 But the fateful Glenrowan showdown with an incoming trainload of cops doesn't go as planned, as anyone familiar with the bushranger's legend will know. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
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Noun
  • Local woodsmen supply balsam branches, which are then ground, dried, and pressed into a mold—eschewing chemicals entirely in this natural and sustainable process.
    Jeanne Malle, airmail.news, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Hoping to stir up some demand, Jesper spreads the word that Mr. Klaus (J.K. Simmons), the large bearded woodsman living on the edge of town, will send a wooden toy to any child who writes him a letter.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The only people who can help Sara and Devin are Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), a grouchy mountain man, and Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), a mute Shoshone girl fleeing her own violent past.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Thanks to an epic job search that... The Other Kind of Snowbird Helen Guri My dad is a mountain man.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • By 1741, Russian naval explorers had arrived at the east coast of Siberia, crossed the sea and found a new land: Alaska.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • This can lead to deadly situations for Sasquatch hunters and other explorers during the winter months.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2025

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