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Adjective
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Snyder's dour depiction of Superman sparked mixed reactions among critics and fans, and subsequent DC movies generally struggled to compete with Marvel at the box office.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
19 Dec. 2024 -
Target lost more than a fifth of its value after the retailer gave a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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When rectal prolapse is more severe, the rectum may not move back into the anal canal.4 This condition is more common in people over 50 years of age, especially women.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
18 Jan. 2025
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So James, sans anal fistula, goes home and surprises everyone, including Helen, in her Helenish sweater and blazer.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2025
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Gabriela Cowperthwaite Twitter aside, there’s no better way to get indignant in a short amount of time than by watching Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary look into the world of captive killer whales.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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If Wired of the 2010s was the cheerful herald of a shiny, happy future (not a judgment!), this piece is its indignant child, pointing accusingly at the mess.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
20 Dec. 2024
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As a result, Black individuals were beaten at random by angry mobs throughout the nation’s capital, including outside of the White House, according to BlackPast, which reported police didn’t intervene.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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One protester was shot to death by a Capitol police officer while at the head of an angry mob pushing through a door.—
The Editors,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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To subvert whiteness with Blackness as a cultural and psychological lingua franca cannot possibly undo the wounds that molded modern Blackness in the first place, a diasporic concern that places even the most joyous liberation and self-expression in an especially morose context.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2024
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Dreux and Alyssa have what looks like a familiar dynamic: Dreux the uptight one in search of control, Alyssa the loosey-goosey one urging her friend to worry less.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2025
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Coin Heist, adapted from Elisa Ludwig’s YA novel, follows in the footsteps of The Breakfast Club by uniting high schoolers who otherwise wouldn’t give each other the time of day: a hacker, the headmaster’s slacker son, a football phenom on a scholarship, and an uptight brainiac.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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The New Daughter has an interesting, sullen mood and looks fantastic, but that just further accentuates how out of place Costner seems.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
1 July 2024
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One of the migrants looks at the camera with sullen eyes and a rugged beard.—
Kunal Sehgal,
CNN,
22 Oct. 2024
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The exasperated experts, right here, begin to fire off e-mails and D.M.s, tutting at the eminent philosopher’s obvious failures of sleep hygiene.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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In an August TikTok post, an exasperated Roan expounded on her increasingly uncomfortable fan encounters.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Schoolmarmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmarmish. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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