Rufus

[ roo-fuhs ]

noun

1. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “red-headed.”

Example Sentences

Folt also cited “of special significance” her efforts to rectify the university’s checkered past on racial justice — offering honorary degrees to 33 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II who were denied the chance to continue their USC studies, stripping the name of eugenicist Rufus von KleinSmid from a prominent building and renaming it after Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American leader, and honoring survivors of the Holocaust with a University Medallion.

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The way Debora, our writer, and production did it was everyone got to read the very last episode, but everyone, with the exception of myself and maybe Rufus, had that last page redacted so they didn’t know.

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Rufus Wainwright feels the clock ticking.

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“Hearing Rufus articulate so beautifully the grace of the song, in a weird way, wishing that for a man who’s clearly unhinged and saying, ‘Maybe that’s grace for him, and maybe it will help him and heal him a little,’” Curtis says.

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“I love that Rufus has found himself in the zeitgeist of this collision of culture and politics and humanity and compassion and division.”

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