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Adjective
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Despite her lofty ambitions, the avant-pop singer is at her most compelling when grounded in the earthly pleasures of four-to-the-floor beats and straightforward, theatrical hooks.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026 -
IndieWire debuts the official stateside trailer exclusively below, and ahead of the film’s theatrical release starting June 26.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Even the recipe deemed sacrilegious in Carbonaragate cannot evoke the same dramatic reactions or touch the same sensitivities that surround cheese—a relationship that, like wine and bread, is often inseparable from faith, sometimes quite literally.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Day hikes such as the Bright Angel Point Trail highlight the dramatic canyon views, but be careful as the trails can get steep.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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The plots tend to be melodramatic — a female lead is swept off her feet by a dashing vampire (or CEO).—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mexico forward Raul Jimenez paid an emotional tribute to his former teammate Diogo Jota after scoring a crucial equalizer against the United States in Sunday’s Concacaf Gold Cup final.—
Martin Rogers,
New York Times,
7 July 2025
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Stoner, a Disney Channel veteran, first opened up about their sexuality in 2018, penning an emotional essay for Teen Vogue.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
7 July 2025
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The landscapes of Church and his peer Albert Bierstadt (who painted the American West) can feel like histrionic versions of Friedrich’s simpler, more concentrated aesthetic.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Crucially, the show’s histrionic extravagance had a purpose in illustrating the life-or-death stakes of youthful emotion.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These brain teasers either stick to one sentimental theme or recap the big events in the couple’s lives from over the past year.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
8 Dec. 2025
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Instead, make like Durham and weave in some older, more sentimental pieces, too.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Hyperemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperemotional. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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