When he is in gadfly mode, as in this new study, he entertains and enlightens about writers including Kant and Ruskin. |
In a male-dominated culture, she was a woman who read, a writer who meant to publish, and a theological gadfly. |
The Grimm Brothers' tiny boy, unseen, tricked and adventured his way through life, a gadfly getting into places nobody else could. |
But as critic, scourge, and gadfly he is in the league of Socrates and Voltaire. |
But when I said that gadfly included vicious bullying and teen suicide, he changed tack. |
Where are the shows about gadfly millionaires who rattle about in drafty mansions, and the mundane decisions we must make ev'ry day? |