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Noun
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The film’s considerable power depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented—in a series of swift, kinetically composed, and jaggedly edited scenes—seldom feel like choices at all.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
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Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.—
Jim Shepard,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
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There is nothing left now but rhythm and exhaustion and raw emotion and stardust bursting out of you.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If one partner hesitates, resist the urge to fill the space with persuasion.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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But whoever said that is clearly not of the female persuasion.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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When life events call for satisfying comfort food, try our Eggplant Parmesan to evoke warmth and tenderness.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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As the sun set over the East River, the music faded but the warmth lingered.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 Sep. 2025
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The goal is to allow the fire to meet the holding features at the lowest possible fire intensity.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Its presence in the night sky on Saturday may make any auroras harder to see, but that does depends on their intensity.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Meaningfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfulness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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