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The author’s elegiac prose is wrought in English by translator Humphrey Davies.—
Nate Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2025 -
Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign by Michael Berry Sam Needleman ‘On the Brink of Erasure’ Tacita Dean’s mesmerizing, elegiac drawing and filmmaking spring from both broad exploration and acute focus.—
Susan Tallman,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2025
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At this point, armed with insights about labor, the commodity, and the money-form, the reader may be shedding any melancholy incomprehension—but can’t yet have arrived at angry lucidity.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The lyrical content of Vernon’s records have long been marked with a tinge of turmoil, and his tendency towards heavy introspection has, at times, cornered him into a trope of a melancholy, lovesick songwriter.—
Leah Lu,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2025
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For many attorneys, the episode encapsulates a lamentable shift in their roles, in which a profession that once embraced the lofty obligation to do good for society has degraded into another grubby enterprise focussed on profits.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2025
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Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.—
Annabel Gutterman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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Kopitar then led the annual sorrowful handshake line with the Edmonton Oilers.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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The most powerful performance —compressed, sorrowful — comes from The Matrix's Joe Pantoliano.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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Mourners pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of funeral Mourners from around the world pay their respects to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.—
Eryk Michael Smith,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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For me, even in funeral masses of family and friends, that's the most powerful moment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2025
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James, with his doleful countenance, makes the adult Hal vaguely sympathetic.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Krauss’s ethereal voice is as haunting as ever on this mournful ballad, where doleful lyrics look back on a time marked by regret and deceit, and get elevated by the elegant interplay between Krauss’ voice and Jerry Douglas’s soul-piercing steel guitar.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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The threat of retaliation is no joke, but the Senator’s plaintive cry does not exactly meet the demands of the moment.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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John compared Autumn Variations to his own downtempo, plaintive 1970 album Tumbleweed Connection—and reminded him his music career should not be thought of as a constantly ascending escalator.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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