The sky was cloudless and dark with the moon’s light now below the horizon.
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Sheeka Sanahori,
Outside,
11 Nov. 2025
Bordered by antique wood pillar columns, the custom wood and glass front doors lead into a rotunda foyer displaying dark polished hardwood floors that run throughout the interiors.
Geirþrúður has wrapped a large towel around herself but her shoulders are still bare and her December-dark hair is wet and wild and possibly blacker than it’s ever been.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
From the balcony, Kate appeared still, serene and composed in an all-black ensemble, accessorized with a black hat, scarf, her RAF brooch and the traditional red poppy.
Elements of her can be found on Lioness in Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, a CIA operative trying to save the world from the swarthy — terrorists in Season One, Mexican cartels in Season Two — while raising two girls.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
Jett Rink was a really malevolent varmint, and kind of swarthy and dark.
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