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Recent Examples of undertow
And yet, there’s another group of women designers who feel the tug of the undertow of something darker, romantic, gothic (as in Mary Shelley, not Siouxsie Sioux, though maybe sometimes her too) and delightfully fragmented and fractured.
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Their post-hardcore venom sparks with a combination of acidic wit, biting humor and cutthroat frustration that reflects the lives of those caught in the undertow of the American dream.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
But Misia almost didn’t escape the undertow of Pampinea’s influence.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 July 2024
Expensive Air continues in this shorter, punchier vein, but with a darker undertow.
—Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Their post-hardcore venom sparks with a combination of acidic wit, biting humor and cutthroat frustration that reflects the lives of those caught in the undertow of the American dream.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
But Misia almost didn’t escape the undertow of Pampinea’s influence.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 July 2024
Expensive Air continues in this shorter, punchier vein, but with a darker undertow.
—Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
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“Undertow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertow. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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