a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear
that little daredevil has broken an arm and an ankle this year alone
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The design is based on the iconic jean jacket cowboys wear in Westerns.
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Christopher Murray
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20 Oct. 2025
Insider tip Caroline Maber from ultraluxe travel specialist Cazenove + Loyd suggests this region is a great place for any first timer to try fishing and saddling up with the local cowboys.
Its depictions of dancing devils and witches’ sabbaths are supposed to scare viewers straight, but writer-director Benjamin Christensen is also sympathetic towards the plight of medieval women persecuted for witchcraft.
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Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
The anime series follows a young man who can demolish fellow devils via a pullstring in his chest that transforms parts of his body into chainsaws.
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were madmen marching the United States toward nuclear war.
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Isaac Schorr,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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