How to Use revivalist in a Sentence

revivalist

noun
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  • The Lemon Twigs, young 1960s-pop revivalists from Long Island, will headline the night.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The last were initially known as revivalists of Mod, the youth movement that gave Williamson’s duo half of its name.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Her daughter, Susan Kikuchi, won renown of her own as a Graham dancer and revivalist.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The preacher rose over the decades from tent revivalist to running a world-wide ministry with his namesake from what would be a vast home base in suburban Akron.
    — Bill Lubinger, cleveland, 7 May 2021
  • The elite soul revivalists are an electrifying live act.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 10 July 2018
  • The past 15 years have seen a whole crop of soul-funk revivalists diving into the tradition, taking the music from vintage records and bringing it to the stage, with a contemporary twist.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Sunday, the trad gospel-quartet revivalists the Harlem Gospel Travelers appear.
    — Stuart Munro, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • The paper reported that the revivalist got into a fight with some performers from a carnival.
    — Daniel Silliman, Washington Post, 5 May 2017
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have been at it since 1989, making the band of revivalists old enough to qualify as piece of actual history themselves.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Billboard spoke to Josh about the band's early days, the apocryphal-sounding tale of their agent signing them without ever seeing them live and a recent crowd-killing stint opening for English glam revivalists The Struts.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The Loire Valley, a center for natural wine, was also home to many early pétillant naturel revivalists.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • While the house has many touches that evoke an earlier era, Branca balks at being considered a mere revivalist or re-creator of history.
    — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2019
  • This gave a boost to Hindu revivalist organizations, which had launched a popular movement claiming that the mosque had been built on the birthplace of the Hindu deity Ram and demanding that it be replaced by a temple.
    — Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2019
  • One key revivalist is Bella Hadid, who often puts a more experimental spin on retro fashions.
    — Vogue, 25 Sep. 2019
  • It’s John’s inheritance from his recently deceased father, an original mod revivalist who, in his salad days, once led a bikers’ protest against Margaret Thatcher on the streets of Brighton.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Nov. 2021
  • There are myriad of enthusiast types: vinyl diehards, streamers, ironic tape cassette revivalists, and more.
    — Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Gass may have been mocking religious hucksters but the speech of the land was part of him, and his ranging, learned works of literary criticism sometimes remind you of a stem-winding tent revivalist evangelizing for Rilke or Rabelais.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • At this point an old-time revivalist movement began to sweep through the land, the kind that arises when a society is forced, like an individual, to face its own deepest conflicts retreats into the mindlessness of unreason.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Built in 1848, the classical revivalist building contains a small research library that Bowman visited to help uncover the story of her ancestors.
    — Sarah Honosky, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • That history creates a paradox with which native intellectuals and cultural revivalists have been wrestling at least since the Indian civil-rights movement of the 1970s.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • As for approaching the old material, the mid-'00s alt-rock revivalist is compromising his forward-thinking nature with an appreciation for the past by giving fans a bit of both on the upcoming tour.
    — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 7 July 2017
  • Even his mythical settings had a philosophical as much as a German-revivalist rationale.
    — Barnaby Crowcroft, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
  • United Methodists are part of a global movement that traces their origins to the 18th-century English revivalist John Wesley, who emphasized personal piety, evangelism, and social service.
    — Peter Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Fifteen years after blasting onto the charts with over-the-top falsetto, body-hugging jumpsuits and hair-metal tomfoolery, the British hard-rock revivalists are back on the UK charts with an accidentally political anthem eschewing public transit.
    — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But this was Sean Brock, the Southern culinary revivalist with an arm covered in vegetable tattoos, who had collected vintage bottles of American bourbon like a maniacal museum curator.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 3 July 2017
  • Hindu revivalists today see an opportunity for a great and glorious reversal of that demographic loss.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Though the revivalist hopes that attended the conservative resurgence were long ago dispelled, its enduring combination of fundamentalism and politicisation gave Southern Baptists two sorts of comfort.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Salafists are puritanical, religious revivalists who support a strict imposition of Islamic law.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 5 June 2018

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