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as in darkly
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025 -
The setpiece is brutally gruesome, darkly comic, and viscerally ambitious.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Al Horford and the rest of the veterans in Golden State's waiting room are quietly pleading for clarity.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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To address that and open up the experience to more of the workforce at Kennedy, the agency has quietly begun work to establish a new facility.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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When people rely heavily on AI for writing tasks, their brains show measurably weaker connectivity patterns.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This suggests that in an economy in which wages are typically not keeping up with the rate of inflation, American households are leaning more heavily on credit cards just to cover everyday expenses.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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In season 3 of The Gilded Age, Gladys unhappily marries the Duke of Buckingham.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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One of the youngest of the MacKenzie brood (and often seen with sister Janet), Jocasta Cameron is sometimes callously honest, perpetually jealous of the attention Ellen gets, and unhappily married to an old man.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
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The only good thing is that the Dodgers have been failing miserably and somehow the Pads remain in contention.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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Video footage from the day shows Beau, 4, pacing the hallway and sitting miserably after his little brother said goodbye to him before going to school.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Bleakly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleakly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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