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Recent Examples of croneFrom its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024 The Witches concerns a conspiracy of demonic crones bent on eradicating kids altogether.—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024 Campbell begins like a fairy tale, in a house the crone Baba Yaga could have comfortably resided in.—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024 It’s even carved with mother/maiden/crone moon phases, perfect for keeping crystals nearby.—Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for crone
Several get small charts offering ideas to inspire how the monster could be used, such as what strange price a hag might have for its secrets or what an owlbear might keep in its den beyond treasure.
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Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
This is indicative of someone who puts men at the center of their universe, viewing other women as either competition or jealous hags.
As the five soon discover, there’s a seemingly endless array of things that want to kill them, from witches and wendigos to parasitic worms and a kaiju-sized monster in the woods.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
There are cybernetic monstrosities like Darth Vader and General Grievous and witches like the Nightsisters.
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