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- noun In
fiction ,drama , orallegory , the archetypicalordinary individual, frequently theprotagonist in aparable of some sort.
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Examples
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As the antagonist of myth may also be a god, as myth deals with, in effect, a society of gods, so in legend the value of everyman is shifted up to demigod.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009
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The everyman is dealing with the duties that any human being might, and doing so with a weaker will.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The everyman is dealing with the duties that any human being might, and doing so with a weaker will.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009
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As the antagonist of myth may also be a god, as myth deals with, in effect, a society of gods, so in legend the value of everyman is shifted up to demigod.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Or, possibly, the $4.50 gasoline price has absorbed every available erg of populist anger, or -- yet another possibility -- today's financial failures are too complex to stick in everyman's craw.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Or, possibly, the $4.50 gasoline price has absorbed every available erg of populist anger, or -- yet another possibility -- today's financial failures are too complex to stick in everyman's craw.
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We've tried the entitled everyman legacy admission President with disastrous results.
Source: Hillary TV Ad Campaign Is Now 100% Negative In Most Pennsylvania Markets 2009
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The one where the nebbish everyman is on one side of the modesty barrier and his bevy of love-sick beauties is on the other?
13th June '06 flidgetjerome 2006
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I understand the desire to connect to the "everyman" -- the typical consumer, but here the ad seems to suggest that Windows users simply are not cool.
The Industry Standard - Comments Theodor Rebegel 2009
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But this is a post-Promethean world, an industrial, capitalist, consumerist, information age world where the everyman is hero.
Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008
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