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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • Myra added They put a little wine beforehand in Truitt's mouth, but that was probably just another physical assault, really.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Ginny led Pat and Patty into the dining room, saying "Truitt is an absolute hit, you should check him out on the deck dazzling them all with his Elven".

    GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • On the morning of the third day he called Truitt, sometime superintendent of the C.P. & D., and now acting manager of the Chicago Extension, and gave him his instructions.

    Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

  • What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt a passionate man with his own dark secrets has plans of his own for his new wife.

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  • In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife."

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  • Composed of an audio recording of Truitt talking about her work, with visual images of paint jars, her color-spattered studio floor and snippets of the trees and sky outside her Washington studio, "Anne Truitt, Working" evinces a signature style that Cohen has refined over a 20-plus-year career: oblique, poetic, adamantly un-literal and keenly attuned to film as a material object with unique textures, translucence and aesthetic properties.

    Ann Hornaday talks to filmmaker Jem Cohen, ambassador to a dreamlike world Ann Hornaday 2011

  • At one point in "Anne Truitt, Working," Truitt expresses skepticism about narrative in art, preferring the purity of line and color and "setting color free into three dimensions."

    Ann Hornaday talks to filmmaker Jem Cohen, ambassador to a dreamlike world Ann Hornaday 2011

  • What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt a passionate man with his own dark secrets has plans of his own for his new wife.

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  • In the most amazing and necessary of coincidences, his teacher turned out to be an old friend of mine from high school, John Truitt, who generously allowed me to audit his class.

    A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy 2010

  • In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife."

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

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