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The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025 -
This was an older, edgier, and even darker Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) than the dour young girl Christina Ricci made famous in the 1990s.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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Using a strap-on is a hot way to try anal play and switch up power dynamics.—
Malia Griggs,
SELF,
21 Apr. 2025
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Yet research has found a decline in awareness that HPV is linked with a number of cancers, including cervical, throat and anal.—
Liz Szabo,
NBC News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Before the arrest, some indignant residents took to social media to speculate about a possible motive — alleging without proof that unscrupulous developers or even the city itself may have orchestrated the acts.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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And the prime minister of Greenland, Mute B. Egede, said in an indignant statement that there would be no meetings between U.S. officials and Greenland’s government.—
Tim Balk,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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An angry man, the same one from earlier, bellows at Jackson as he is muscled off the ball, and there are more expletives as Chelsea pass it backwards after getting close to Everton’s penalty area.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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In 2010, under pressure over the healthcare overhaul that became known as Obamacare, a number of House Democrats skipped public events after facing angry town halls the previous summer.—
Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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One of the season’s main stories has focused on Rick (played by Walton Goggins), a morose middle-aged man vacationing with his earnest, wide-eyed girlfriend, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood).—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2025
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Russian audiences don’t want an exclusive diet of heavy, morose, emotionally draining art on themes of war and sacrifice.—
Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 1982, Marsh switched to comedy as uptight Roz Keith in the 1982-83 TV sitcom 9 to 5, which was based on the film of the same name.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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In their dance number at the Tropicana, for instance, Omara dances with her heels down, while her more uptight sister is on her toes.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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The four-run outing snapped a stretch of nine consecutive scoreless outings for the rookie, who was consoled by each member of this veteran bullpen in the cramped, sullen visiting clubhouse in Chicago.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Ramsey is reprising their role as Ellie, the sullen American teenager who is immune to the cordyceps fungus turning everyone else into zombies and who may, therefore, hold the key to humanity’s rescue.—
Zing Tsjeng,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
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And Kenna Harrington plays the smart but exasperated strategist Mark.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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That produced an exasperated response from Senate Democrats, who spoke on the floor late into the night Wednesday to highlight the impact the funding freeze ordered by Trump’s budget office would have on communities around the country.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Schoolmarmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmarmish. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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