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At first glance, Codey looks like a nightmarish character from the year 3000.
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In the show, the heroine shares nightmarish tales alongside Herneval, who appears not as a prince but a sentient book.
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That is, on paper anyway, a ridiculous sentence.
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So why not put something ridiculous or funny in the background, even during a scene that’s only there to move the exposition forward?
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Then, a 300-year-old man shows up and there is farcical wrestling at sea.
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From this point on, the play has farcical fun with dialogue and set pieces pertaining to dramatic roles and drastic epiphanies.
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Dumont, whose professional background is in owning and operating casinos, is gambling that his franchise can use a 34-year-old guard who is coming off another major injury whose forte is surreal quickness and dribble-drive penetration as the primary complement to Cooper Flagg.
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Grief mangles cognition and memory in ways that can make even banal tasks feel surreal, if not impossible.
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Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.
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In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.
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The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties.
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Attempting to stimulate or depress the economy based on it is ludicrous.
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Almine Rech notes in its announcement Carrington’s fascination with mythology (particularly Celtic), the occult, and, like her Surrealist peers, the dreamlike subconscious.
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Stepping out in the French capital after dark, the singer and actor embraced a softer side of glamour, trading her signature slinkier silhouettes for a dreamlike dress that embodied couture fantasy and modern-day fairytale all at once.
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Back then, playing in a World Cup seemed laughable for Canada.
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March 13, 2026 For Gen Z neophytes and hardcore fans overseas (South Asian and Nigerian Mike zealots apparently have a lot to say on the matter), the idea of MJ/Prince ever being a rivalry is laughable.
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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