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Marking Domingo’s feature directing debut, the movie chronicles the fallout of the race-barrier breaking affair between the song and dance man and Kim Novak – played by Sydney Sweeney – in 1957.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025 -
There are grand old-fashioned song and dance spectacles but also solo numbers that do fine without any extravagance.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2025
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Many of them do not have high levels of computer and internet literacy and need someone to help them through all the legalese of a nearly century-old social program with a wonky user interface.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
22 Feb. 2025
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A little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, the legalese of it all.—
H. Alan Scott,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.—
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
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The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.—
Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2020
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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2022
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The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2021
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“Governmentese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governmentese. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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