gorgon

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Recent Examples of gorgon The original premise follows Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, vampire and gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II. Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 26 July 2024 Those themes are evident in the salon decorated with giant nautilus shells, gorgons of the sea and other old nautical items. Chloe Braithwaite, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2024 The East Coast socialites Capote fawns over are lacquered gorgons (for whom the show occasionally sheds crocodile tears, as in the case of Paley’s cancer diagnosis); the Hollywood crowd that takes him in is tasteless lightweights. Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024 Playwright Kenny Hahn delves into the human side of the famous gorgon. John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2023 Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world. Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023 The premise features Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, a vampire and a gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023 Georgie Farmer plays Ajax, a gorgon who can turn people into stone. Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022 Kennedy will guest star as Medusa, the infamous gorgon. Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
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Noun
  • In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
    Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
Noun
  • But the film belongs to Moreno, clearly relishing the chance to play an unapologetic termagant.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Rita may be a bossy termagant, but her adoring Beppe appears to love being whacked around from time to time, so what’s the harm?
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • And Day, with a face of expressive misery and the energy of an imploding firecracker, portrays her as a shrewd fusion of harridan and victim.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The subtext throughout is that Tendler is a harridan, a domineering scold.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • For those guys, mothers are either harpies or sirens—villains or traps.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • This is her name for the seventh circle of hell from Dante’s Inferno, where the souls of those who’ve committed suicide become trees, and harpies peck at them for all eternity.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • There have been a few seasons of the show in which men (see: season five Cole) are portrayed as innocent but good-hearted idiots and women as harsh shrews.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Revolutionizing Fossil Analysis with X-Ray Imaging The concept arose almost by chance when Ian Corfe was probing shrew teeth at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France (synchrotrons are high-powered instruments that use X-ray beams).
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.
    Amy DuBois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At a baseline, video vixens confirmed that Black women deserve all of the episodic things shown in the music videos.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023

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