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After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.—
Arkansas Online,
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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This working prompt injection came only after much trial and error, explaining the verbosity and the detail in it.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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As Sweden’s canon debate attests, such rhetoric remains part of the global right-wing playbook.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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But his other harsh rhetoric in relation to the Arctic territory and NATO allies is still reverberating across the alliance.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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The hotel itself is a rhapsody in clean, modern design that subtly winks to the legion efforts behind it.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Jan. 2026
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Crime Wave begins as nostalgic rhapsody for film noir, for dangers that are a kind of quickening: of the pulse, of the primal feeling of aliveness that only a threat can invoke.—
Miriam Gershow,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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On Saturday night and early Sunday, forecasters expect wind and snow that could lead to blizzard conditions before the storm starts to move to sea.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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And a strong gust of wind can often throw a wrench into the whole thing.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 Jan. 2026
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His toughness, off-the-cuff oratory skills and preference for coaching defense all come from the man whose traits were forged in a northeastern Pennsylvania town his family has called home for more than a century.—
Ben Bolch,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2026
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King’s ability to take ideas from White preachers’ bland sermons and convert them to stirring oratory was part of his genius, Miller says.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Turgidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turgidity. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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