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Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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In between the two extremes of saints and (supposed) sinners were women who joined religious communities, dedicating their lives to the worship of God.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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And unlike many of those films, its avoidance of forgiveness as a simple fix in turn avoids shifting the responsibility of the sin away from the sinner to the victim.Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Local leaders say public pieces like murals and sculptures have the power to both beautify and protect the city by letting would-be wrongdoers know that a community is cared for.Justin L. Mack, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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She was expected to survive the shooting as the perp remained at large.Shant Shahrigian, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
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Many of them keep an eye out for criminal proceedings where the perp used your data.PCMAG, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
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The crime thriller, distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films, follows Neeson as an aging gangster who attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify his past mistakes.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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Not knowing my brother just got killed in April, not knowing Sly is one of the biggest gangsters of all time.Angel Diaz, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
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The luxurious desert oasis was reportedly built by mobsters and offers an adults-only policy, which is a true escape for parents needing a breather.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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The Penguin, which brings back Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb from that first movie, is similarly a Scarface story about a low-level gangster who takes advantage of a power vacuum in the criminal underworld after the Riddler offed his boss, mobster Carmine Falcone (John Turturro).Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
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The climax, in which Dwight and his crew beat a group of nameless Chinese immigrant thugs into submission after they’re used as cannon fodder by Cal Thresher to sabotage Dwight’s wind turbines, is more important to the plot and even uglier.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Like other Diablo games, Hades would support cooperative multiplayer, but in the Arkham games, groups of thugs would circle around the Dark Knight, comic-book style, waiting to be punched in the face.Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Gallows bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20bird. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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