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Noun
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The arrival of a little orphan girl challenges their sense of solidarity in a tense social climate, revealing both their fragility and strength.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Some signs of overheating and exhaustion arguably raise an alert for potential erratic energy and emerging fragility, but this market has rendered plenty such alarms false.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Though Good Boy gets by for a while on the strength of its performances and the sheer oddness of its plot, the flimsiness of its characters drains the film of energy long before its 110 minutes are up.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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This decision throws Carrie’s flimsiness, as the lead character of a franchise three generations of women have absorbed into their own identities, into relief.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Diaphanousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diaphanousness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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