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Adverb
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His most ambitious series to date, Pluribus can be seen as a corrective of sorts—a grand, artful, mind-bendingly philosophical, darkly funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but consistently humane vindication of our fractious species.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Stone and Lanthimos have since worked together several times, and their collaboration, a mutual-favoritism society, has been hailed and sometimes reviled for its darkly exuberant sense of risk.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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During one depressive episode, Springsteen somberly speeds down the road in his Camaro before violently hitting the brake.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Paris digs are infinitely sleeker, dimly lit, and darkly appointed, but the food is more or less an exact replica.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 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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