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Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.—
Literary Hub,
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My love of the theater and my love of the people who dedicate their life to creativity and the kind of highs and lows of that life, and the silliness and stupidity of that life, and the moments of elegiac grace.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The song itself speaks to universal feelingd about loss, regret, and learning to live in the moment, while the Puerto Rican folk genre plena gives it the perfect melancholy melody.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
21 Feb. 2026
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But Fennell is too fixated on the surface dazzle to undercut the mood with deeper melancholy or conflicted sexuality.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2026
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Sitting opposite an old people’s home in a residential corner of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, La Santé’s unassuming presence is only given away by the occasional wailing siren as prisoners are transported to and from the site.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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That lack of trust in America, and in particular the American president, is understandable, but deeply lamentable.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Purely observationally, the events in Caracas offer yet another lamentable reminder of how much the liberal, old world order has disintegrated in the age of Trump and Putin.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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And no matter what the ultimate tally, every individual is an aching, terrible loss.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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The performance — nuanced, aching and full of soul — has re-energized her place in the industry, and as Oscar season builds momentum, Hudson finds herself back in the Oscar conversation.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
21 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Fennell also cut the novel’s frame story, in which the events of the story are told by the housekeeper Nelly (played in the movie by Hong Chau) to an outside observer years after all the sorrowful drama that befouled Heathcliff and Cathy.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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With its family friction and its outsiders’ view of a fast-growing city in a young, postwar country, Shame and Money casts a piercing, sorrowful gaze at the ground-level effects of globalization.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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An imam was hauled up from his small room adjacent to his small mosque and ordered to get ready to lead the funeral prayers of a very important man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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After the visitation, there will be the funeral procession, where Elliott will be laid to rest in Crown Hill Cemetery.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
19 Feb. 2026
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With their large hands and expressive, doleful faces, the great apes are often depicted as the poster children for experimentation.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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His doleful father, portrayed by Paul Dooley in a magically right match of performer and material, despairs for his blithely romantic son’s future.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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