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The road to that disturbingly phallic Jules Rimet trophy inevitably goes through Spain, France, England, Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, and a bunch of others.
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Henry is a very tough movie, built on disturbingly casual violence and a characterization of the title character that is uniquely bleak even by horror standards.
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Public trust in medicine and science is alarmingly low, a persistent issue highlighted at Aspen Ideas Health and by the Edelman Trust Barometer, now exacerbated by social media.
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And, most alarmingly, Nick’s home doesn’t belong to him — and his wife and daughter aren’t there.
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The Marriage Bed by Tommy Hays After a heated argument with his wife Betsy, Asheville, North Carolina, poetry professor Asa Flowers spends his first night apart from her in decades, only to wake to a world quietly and unsettlingly changed.
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Griffin’s blue eyes are unsettlingly bright.
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Hopefully just not as traumatically — although Holly’s already had a slightly traumatic childhood.
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High-level players will basically always be in a drift—even during straightaways—to seize every opportunity to boost, just like people who were disgustingly good at Mario Kart DS back in the day.
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The next morning, Park awakes hung over before disgustingly scoffing down a handful of salmon off a caterer's serving tray.
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The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.
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The basic themes of Hearst’s life and the novels that dramatize it remain distressingly relevant.
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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Not a massive issue, by any means, but annoyingly repetitive.
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That’s an annoyingly solid entry, as well as being our first to use each of their first three pick slots.
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“Perturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbingly. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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