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- adjective Of or relating to Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American writer and film director.
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Examples
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Indeed, he applies a Mailerian label to Elvis Presley as "the first and greatest of White Negroes."
Films in Fraught Times Stefan Kanfer 2011
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And then there's this modern and Mailerian twist on human agency in a zone of struggle between God and Satan:
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There are numerous Mailerian fingerprints in the novel.
Roger Kimball: Norman Mailer, a Dissenting View William Harryman 2007
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There are numerous Mailerian fingerprints in the novel.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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There are numerous Mailerian fingerprints in the novel.
Norman Mailer died. Ann Althouse 2007
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Whether these sayings can be called plausible depends largely on how convincing this Jesus is as a Mailerian character.
Advertisement for Himself Kermode, Frank 1997
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It was therefore with some of the feeling of a Christian being dunked in the Ganges that I immersed myself in the Mailerian prose.
Confessions of the Last American O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1968
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