Still, since the man had fled, these officials emphasized the necessity of executing her, even as the whole episode whispered even to them of the dangerous vulnerabilities of their colonial situation.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
There were only whispered recriminations in the dark.
The Renaissance master, whose name is only ever sighed in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, supposedly traded truth for beauty, and ended up destroying both.
Refn has made characters moving and speaking in a benzodiazepine fugue state — lines hissed out stiltedly into dead air, spoken like throwing stones down a well — his signature in recent films.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
His line drive hissed past a leaping Steffen for a 3-2 Miami lead.
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