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Protesters have slammed the notions and multiple attendees wore inflatable frog and animal costumes to point to the absurdity of the claims of danger.—
Darcie Moran,
Freep.com,
18 Oct. 2025 -
These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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And while the film’s metaphor seems to indicate that Jesse’s burgeoning sexuality is something to fear, the ridiculousness of the dialogue and Patton’s shrieking performance make this a perverse camp classic.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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Del Toro’s explanation for this paradox revealed to Isaac that Victor Frankenstein operates without doubt or hesitation—until his catastrophic moment of reckoning.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Computational physicist Jian-Yue Guan of Lanzhou University in China and her colleagues presented another application of Parrondo’s paradox in a paper published in Physical Review E in August 2025.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
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Some of the hangars are used as soundstages, and Linklater pointed out an old air-traffic-control tower, jutting, with pleasing retro-futurist incongruity, out of a public plaza.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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So the incongruity might be coming from a place of the myth of meritocracy.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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The tonal whiplash gave it a nonsensical, dark irony, like something an especially cynical Tim Robinson would create.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The irony was that someone in this situation was getting paid to spread skewed political narratives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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That contradiction of hope and aching despair goes beyond the music, running right through the roots of the show.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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The closing panel of the industry program looked at the question in depth, examining the hidden contradictions and complexities of publishing rights and buy-outs in screen music.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Its complexities and peculiarities are only dimly recalled, if at all, by many readers.—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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These endeavors have given rise to the emerging field of quantum engineering, which aims to utilize the peculiarities of quantum physics for groundbreaking technological innovations.—
Zhixin Wang,
The Conversation,
10 Oct. 2025
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All under Guadagnino’s scrupulous direction and cinematographer Malik Sayeed’s (Belly) visualization, the performative guise of Ivy League school decorum delivers as the perfect dichotomy to the serious nature of what these characters put each other through.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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The house’s spectacle in Grand Palais and fashion show is rooted in technological, futuristic and artisanal imaginations, while experiencing a dichotomy with the reinvention of clothing, which carries a sensitive memory of the past — projecting a constellation of colors, codes and values.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Illogicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogicality. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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