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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Saadawi’s unabashedly political, blackly funny contemporary take on the mythos (superb translated by Jonathan Wright, who captures the wry humor and brooding, ominous rhythms of Saadawi’s dark tale) is, however, a true standout in a very crowded field.
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Literary Hub,
16 July 2024
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Saadawi’s unabashedly political, blackly funny contemporary take on the mythos (superb translated by Jonathan Wright, who captures the wry humor and brooding, ominous rhythms of Saadawi’s dark tale) is, however, a true standout in a very crowded field.
—
Literary Hub,
16 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackly
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Makeup highlights for the actress continued the punk edge, with bold brows, darkly lined eyes and a neutral, glossy lip by artist Tyron Machhausen.
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Netflix also has a pair of strong four-hour adaptations in the harrowing Lord of the Flies and the darkly comic political tragedy of Death by Lightning.
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Museums abhor windows, so the building has all the approachability of a medieval keep, as gloomily defensive as the park is welcoming.
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.
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But for now, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer remains at a dismally low 13%, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The assets performed dismally in March but rebounded in April.
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The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.
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The basic themes of Hearst’s life and the novels that dramatize it remain distressingly relevant.
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Nantz somberly delivered the emotional news while taking several breaks to compose himself.
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The season's penultimate scene finds Carl at his favorite haunt, sipping his morning coffee while somberly staring at his tiny Tom Ruffage diorama figure.
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The Vietnam War and Watergate had spawned a paralyzing sense of national distrust, and New Hollywood had reflected that reality beautifully but pessimistically.
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For example, professors Morana Koludrovic and Franceska Delija at the University of Split in Croatia also make the point, more pessimistically, however, that the young can no longer learn from the old, not with all the changes in technology and media.
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Take, for example, Keanu Reeves, who was memeified after a photo of the actor sullenly eating a sandwich went viral.
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.
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Three of the four arrived soberly dressed, one of them, Hodgkin, in a black suit, folded his arms and stared glumly ahead.
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.
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“Blackly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackly. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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