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Within the film’s glittering absurdity, Langlois shows us how easily the monster that was fame and fandom could turn on women like Mimi and Billie.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025 -
Based in Brooklyn, the studio will focus on stories that go inside the fringe to capture the absurdity of modern American life.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2025
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But here's the paradox: pursuing happiness often makes people more unhappy.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Many Alaskans see the prospect as an embarrassing paradox – akin to Hawaii importing pineapples or New Mexico importing green chiles.—
Brett Watson,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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Understand nuance, relational differences, and can deal with incongruity.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Camp is this aesthetic of ironic juxtaposition, taking something that might be shocking in its incongruity, and then using it to create a cool or humorous effect.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
15 Apr. 2025
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But the irony is that Columbus never stood on what is today mainland North America, despite becoming a rallying point after Italian-American immigrants were lynched in the 1890s.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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But apparently history loves irony. Flash- forward to today, and the same folks who went on to elite left-leaning institutions of establishment formatting, like Harvard, Oxford and Sciences Po Paris, many of whom once railed against the system, are now the system themselves.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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No surprise here—for the life of the Church, like that of each Christian, reaches redemption by taking on the shape of the Cross: the universal sign of contradiction, even unto herself.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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This contradiction between rhetoric and reality cannot be ignored.—
Jeffrey Gahler,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Apr. 2025
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This Texas peculiarity is especially confounding to Democratic legislators in Sacramento and Springfield, who would never dream of allowing Republicans to do likewise in California and Illinois, states where Democrats have legislative supermajorities like the GOP does in Texas.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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But that’s a decline with some peculiarities.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
6 Jan. 2025
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The fear that optimizing for performance will dilute brands’ authenticity is a false dichotomy.—
Alex Khassa,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Sinners also offers a contemporary look into this racial dichotomy by subtly addressing the one-drop rule — a 1662 legal doctrine that declared anyone with any Black ancestry, regardless of how small, to be considered African American.—
Melanie Curry,
Refinery29,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Illogicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogicality. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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