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Recent Examples of blockishThe venue was a blockish and forbidding space called Magazine, which squats in a loop of the Thames, in southeast London.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 July 2026 PowerBlock’s blockish design has critics comparing it to reaching into a toaster but the brand has solid loyalty among serious home-gym owners and strength enthusiasts.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026 Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.—Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2021
Despite its sweeping celestial setting, the whole series was constrained, relying on face-to-face conversations in tiny offices to convey plot, and action scenes that often looked like scuffles in a blocky, dark, half-convincing cave.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2026
The bathroom’s been updated, too, with a soaking tub and blocky tiling.
Rather than relying on a bulky conventional liquid-cooling system with heavy hardware, the concept uses a flow-through tail designed around the Venturi effect.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Oct. 2026
People with large or overactive chewing muscles, often from clenching or grinding, who want to soften a bulky lower-face look or ease jaw pain.
The world building is easier to understand and less dense than Crescent City, and the tone is also the most indicative of SJM’s writing on the whole; Throne of Glass started as a YA series, then becomes more adult over time.
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Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
24 Oct. 2026
The mollusks can form dense colonies that clog pipes, obstruct water flow and foul boat motors.