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Noun
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His surreal, operatic films and television shows examined romance, consciousness, evil, and the enduring rot beneath suburban sheen and Hollywood glamor.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025 -
These evils are sensational and appalling, and there’s an impulse to perceive them as existing outside of our realities, perpetrated by people who aren’t like us.—
Billy J. Stratton,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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And why, after the flurry of arrests in 2023, has Chinese law enforcement action slowed despite a resurgence in criminality?—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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The settlement would enable the Murdoch camp to quash the public presentation of evidence by Harry and Watson's legal team —evidence meant to show that the Murdoch daily tabloid the Sun also engaged in widespread criminality in its reporting methods.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The film cares more for Romy’s enveloping sense of self than the depths of her immorality.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.—
Jason Parham,
WIRED,
26 Dec. 2024
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Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.—
Tobias Grey,
airmail.news,
10 Aug. 2024
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Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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