His hair, which had been neatly trimmed for a court appearance several months ago, was darker and disheveled, his face bearded.
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Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
More to Explore By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
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H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Sep. 2025
The more hirsute Bellucci was reduced to stealing a solitary game in the first hour from the purple streak of lightning running the show from the other side of the net.
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