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Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Some were neighbors who fostered young children in need of a home, a pharmacist who selflessly served the same community for decades or a veteran who fearlessly died for her country.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this month, however, the Princess of Wales was graciously gifted a sparkly red cowgirl hat by England's Red Roses rugby team after their victory against Australia in the Women's Rugby World Cup.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
27 Sep. 2025
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And for those more interested in Mulaney’s musical stylings, the MLB graciously posted the below clip of his seventh inning stretch serenade.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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In public, Mark Kerr speaks amiably about his trainer turned rival and even takes him along for a rowdy impromptu meet-and-greet, but the lack of friction comes off less as a sign of his unflappability than of Safdie’s indifference to probing a friendship beyond buddy-comedy depth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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But that’s also what’s interesting about this lightly enjoyable, mostly disposable sequel to 2021’s amiably ultraviolent Nobody.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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The scene is absurd to the point of funny—four men in tight quarters with an exposed corpse and yet affably disinterested.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Before long, out of the jungle emerge elephants, affably swaying their trunks and dancing to his music.—
Anthony R. Cannella,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2025
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But a reporter working on a story like mine would never request or permit an escort—after all, how can someone talk freely about a subject while being observed, however cheerily, by the government?—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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Wesley would rack up accomplishments with a sparkling air of perfection, then march cheerily forward.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Ungrudgingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungrudgingly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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