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In a staid sport where being outspoken is often looked down upon, Collins never shies away from a chance to speak out.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025 -
The wrestling connections continue behind the scenes, where multiple employees with WWE experience were hired, including one tasked with using lighting to bring some theatricality to the typically staid sport.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 May 2024
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Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2024
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One key to that, Gaultier said, is density of people without letting the space feel too stuffy.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
10 Dec. 2024
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Bingo! Alivia's tantrum hack—to keep things lighthearted—is a simple one, but a great reminder that not everything has to be so stuffy.—
Tanay Howard,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2024
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By then, America had become a lot less puritanical.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
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Babygirl tries to deftly waltz over this minefield of a topic without a sense of puritanical judgement or heavy panting, but with as much emphasis on Romy’s need for this transfer of power to tap into her erogenous zones.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2024
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Ruby is a mess — chaos, really — whereas AJ is a bit more straitlaced, and there’s a stiff physicality to her.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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Garrison plays Trisha, Sam’s straitlaced sister who’s undergone major growth as well.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
9 Dec. 2024
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You’ll be taken through the 15th-century mansion, which underwent a lavish Victorian Gothic transformation during the 19th century when John Crichton-Stuart, the third Marquess of Bute, owned the castle.—
Jamie Carter,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2025
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This is a two-story Victorian red-brick row house in what was, in Foster’s youth, a wholly working-class neighborhood.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Who can forget the sparkling black halterneck dress worn by Isabella Rossellini’s femme fatale lounge singer in Blue Velvet, or the prim cardigans worn by Naomi Watts in Muholland Drive as Betty, a wide-eyed, small-town girl arriving in Los Angeles for the first time?—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
17 Jan. 2025
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One sketch, vetoed by the network, had Tomlin playing a prim mother, Mrs. Beasley, calling her son in from the back yard, which was actually a war zone, ablaze with exploding mortar shells.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Priggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggish. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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