Adjective She is a novelist who is catholic in her interests. a museum director with catholic tastes in art

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

There’s a catholic impulse in the origins of Minimalism. Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, "The Minimized Life," 15 May 2020

Though school administrators seem surprised by the actions, an alleged former student took to social media after the news broke, to share that racist behavior at the catholic school is not uncommon. Tanya A. Christian, Essence, "Virginia Catholic School Responds To Student's Racist Snapchat," 16 Jan. 2020

Having poured over the 220 issues of the magazine edited by Daves, Tuite has organized her own book into eight sections focused on subjects from cocktail dressing to culture that demonstrate the breadth of Daves’s catholic interests. Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "A New Book, 1950s in Vogue, Celebrates Jessica Daves, the Magazine’s Editor from 1952-1962," 16 Dec. 2019

But since no one Mexican expat group dominates Mira Loma like, say, Oaxacans in Koreatown or chilangos in Santa Ana, Casa Diaz is catholic in offerings and presentation. Gustavo Arellanostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "At Casa Diaz in Mira Loma, feast on Guadalajara specialties like tacos ahogados," 15 Aug. 2019

But that catholic business model had become much harder to pull off in the face of Amazon’s near-monopoly on e-books and its ever-growing chunk of the physical book market. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "Peter Mayer, the Fiery Sage of Publishing," 23 May 2018

But neither of those talking points come close to summing up a man of relentless, zeitgeisty, catholic creative drive. Noah Johnson, GQ, "Cali Thornhill Dewitt and the Ghosts of Los Angeles," 12 Apr. 2018

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