It's different to Phoebe's, of course, but all of the things I've worked on until now have been darkly horrible and darkly funny.
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Fugues, text messages to the dead, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein, tart mini-operas, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.
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Speaking of hell: The 2006 Romanian movie The Death of Mr. Lazarescu puts a human face on medical hades, in a darkly comic (okay, very darkly comic) setting.
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It's true that the PC game is uproariously, darkly funny.
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She is also darkly transfixing, with an almost lupine spirit.
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The international community is going to find that darkly amusing.
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Alex Jones was in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly .
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"You don't know what you've done," the officer said, darkly.
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Defeat me, he intones darkly, and I will pants myself.
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He had a bit of Lee Marvin's darkly appraising gaze.
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Critics called the action thriller "Ready or Not" darkly funny.
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" He added darkly, "That is the N.F.L.'s tactic here.
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Crow, is a memorable character: foul, filthy, and darkly funny.
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"I gave the order anyway," he said, and smiled darkly.
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The darkly decadent treat will be available on Aug. 21.
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"They'd lock me up," he'd say darkly, which also was true.
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The game toys with alcohol use in a darkly funny way.
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"White supremacists on fucking motorcycles with Confederate flags," she explained darkly.
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Behind them the officers wait darkly, their trucks and shotguns ready.
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After the tenderhearted Gen X ironists comes the darkly serious Millennial.
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While the remake is definitely darkly funny at times, it's understated.
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Have your rotoscoping techniques and processes evolved from A Scanner Darkly?
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When pressed for details, I demurred and muttered darkly about Birmingham.
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I flattered myself that my bio was wry and darkly humorous.
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There is something soothing and disturbing about it, something darkly metaphysical.
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Then, darkly, he deflected that anger onto the most vulnerable Americans.
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It could also, he said darkly, be bad for your health.
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In his darkly apocalyptic inauguration speech, Trump made his plans clear.
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"F--- With Myself" is edgy, chilling, darkly contoured, and extremely gutsy.
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Undone visibly draws on both A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life.
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And in a darkly ironic twist, Clinton's longtime friend Virginia Gov.
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Once I returned, I saw him darkly flipping through my copy.
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Her voice doesn't bloom, but it darkly insinuates, like a clarinet.
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She wants him to slowly die "like an animal" she darkly says.
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Its most striking characteristic, however, is its darkly mottled or reticulated skin.
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She's cheering, but this time she's wearing red, and she's darkly lit.
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Day is known for the darkly comedic It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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It is a darkly sardonic statement of societal dis-ease and discontent.
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He declines to be interviewed, simply laughing darkly before returning to work.
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You've said this record is based in part on A Scanner Darkly .
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Maria Bamford has finally found the perfect showcase for her darkly hopeful
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There's something darkly alluring about the myth of the seasonal suicide increase.
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Prior to regenerating, the Doctor was sometimes gruff, melancholy, and darkly sarcastic.
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Huawei boasted the phone's ability to take pictures in darkly-light environments.
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Almost immediately, people began complaining about darkly colored, foul-smelling tap water.
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Still, Ward's tone is darkly appropriate to its purposes, and its origins.
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The answer is darkly referred to as—hold on tight—the Box.
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"One day you'll dig out a very unwelcome surprise," she warns darkly.
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"It's such a wonderful, strange, bright, darkly sunny show," Mr. Burgess said.
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A heavily armed student in black, his eyes darkly made up, enters.
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That person will be as brightly inspirational as Trump is darkly confrontational.
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Turkish officials hint, darkly, that he may never be seen alive again.
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His work follows in their footsteps, and is fantastical and darkly humorous.
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Thompson-Spires achieves a masterful, darkly funny, evocative collection about our America.
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The darkly comic tale doubles up as a thriller, with flashes of violence.
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The advertisement certainly has elements of horror, but edges more on darkly humorous.
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It's also a darkly beautiful philosophical journey stuffed into a short animated film.
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"Mother" looks like one of Stuart Davis's Jazz Age parties gone darkly haywire.
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It's a darkly funny game whose laughs benefit from its choice of setting.
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It's at times a darkly comedic satire, but it also includes unabashed poignance.
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You can read the full, darkly hilarious and depressingly spot-on interview, here.
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His tweets are grim and occasionally darkly funny retellings of historic witch trials.
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To peer into Zamyatin's future is to see modernity's reflection gazing darkly back.
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Though it's set on Halloween, The Body is more darkly comic than scary.
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Neither did the brutally underrated adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly.
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The darkly humorous parts become obvious thanks to deputy sheriff Reed Ethington (Pally).
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Then, the officiant says something darkly parallel to the drama behind this relationship.
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It struck him as darkly symbolic, as so many things did these days.
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I look through the lenses darkly, and that's what I'm paid to do.
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Florence Darkly suffers from all the typical problems of the middle-class Brooklynite.
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"Bird's Hell" (220) is a political commentary masked as a darkly comical fantasy.
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Bleary and darkly ringed, they make you wonder what horrors they have seen.
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Rachmaninoff's darkly colored, richly melodic "Symphonic Dances," his final composition, concluded the program.
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MG: In A Scanner Darkly it was, in my mind, very detailed animation.
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The usual lines of banter were soon crossed; the teasing turned darkly sexual.
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A synth bass heaves underneath, and for a moment things feel darkly reassuring.
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When I peel back the veneer of guilt, there is anxiety, simmering darkly.
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"There will be an uprising if nothing comes to fruition," another predicts darkly.
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"It would be the end of social democracy in Germany," one said darkly.
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The American people, they hinted darkly, would pay the price for Democrats' behavior.
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The responses — Politico provides anonymity to participants in the survey — are darkly comic.
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Much of the artworks for sale emanated a darkly satirical message this past weekend.
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So it shouldn't surprise us that even Balthus's simple still life is darkly tempered.
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And the vibe of the darkly glamorous photos feels distinctly cinematic — for good reason.
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The hands of Trump have certainly played a darkly physical role in his campaign.
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Her entirely toy-free presentation showcased a selection of darkly doe-eyed demi-goddesses.
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It didn't lead to an interesting ending, but the journey itself was darkly satisfying.
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When darkly browned all over, remove the lemon from the oven and let cool.
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"Real estate values and taxes in New York would plummet," Mr. Trump prognosticated darkly.
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When she touches on disturbing subjects and threatening fantasies, she can be darkly humorous.
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Each chapter of "Through a Glass, Darkly" ends with Claire in very different places.
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Meursault, the protagonist of "The Stranger," isn't cranky, defiant or darkly funny good company.
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They suggest darkly that the government is playing down the risk to avoid panic.
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Its society is so polarized that some people speak darkly of armed civil conflict.
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Last summer, Lifetime surprised with this relentless, darkly comic behind-the-scenes power game.
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"My Golden Days" is a memory movie, a story told through a glass darkly.
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As he has done before, Mr. Davies approaches the past through a glass darkly.
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We want clear cut answers, but see through a glass darkly, as Scripture says.
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The darkly comedic "I, Tonya" arrived in four theaters and collected a solid $245,602.
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For 1980s babies like me, nuclear war has long had a darkly comic edge.
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Early in the campaign, she warned European leaders darkly against interfering in Britain's election.
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During the debate Trump darkly hinted at wanting to stay something but stopped short.
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There has never been a more darkly comic person to occupy the White House.
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Darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing — these comics wield a rare and innovative power.
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It's told in a stream-of-consciousness style that's both rich and darkly funny.
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In a darkly comic way, I sometimes feel like that's essentially who I am.
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It worked really well and gave the whole film a darkly atmospheric and moody vibe.
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It's a world that can be playful and darkly unsettling, often at the same time.
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During the primary, Mr Juppé spoke darkly of the "brutality" of Mr Fillon's economic programme.
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A darkly colored storm on Neptune that's the diameter of the Atlantic Ocean is shrinking.
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Periodically, a scene or panel will flash some darkly poetic descriptions of this mechanized world.
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Toni Erdmann is loaded with ironies and disjunctions, with worlds colliding to darkly humorous effect.
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The darkly humorous show is based on a graphic novel and co-produced by Netflix.
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In the darkly comedic mockumentary Reclamation, Cuthand envisions a near-idyllic planet without white people.
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Archer's work on A Scanner Darkly is minimalist, composed of black-and-white line drawings.
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Normally, Scorpios are characterized as darkly humorous individuals who know how to keep a secret.
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But my certainty that she won't throw herself over gives the situation something darkly ridiculous.
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Perhaps unintentionally, this darkly comic show heightens our awareness of the impertinent finery of decomposition.
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The darkly comedic "AP Bio" got canceled but later got renewed for a streaming service.
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Interestingly, not every flower of the Queen Anne's lace bears the single darkly colored floret.
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Stephen Sondheim's darkly boisterous musical "Sweeney Todd" made its Broadway debut in a Nederlander house.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a prominent Trump supporter, spoke darkly about Cruz's future.
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Ian McGuire's riveting and darkly brilliant novel "The North Water" also dramatizes a disgraced personality.
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Sab's darkly elegant 3D digital art reflects his experiences and conflicted identity as an immigrant.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — The ominous images in the video pile up, set to darkly urgent music.
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From its darkly fissured boughs, Barkowski has hung simplified versions of typical Moroccan tin lanterns.
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Whoever "you" may be, the poem's implications are darkly optimistic: We can speak after death.
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In this darkly comic Edward Albee diptych, the outside world has its uncertainties and terrors.
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Instead his past — his sexual past, primarily — catches up to him in darkly comic ways.
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It is filled with darkly monochromatic works referring to gun violence devastating African-American communities.
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Phan tips the cooked squash into a blender and pours darkly browned butter over it.
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Opponents have also spoken darkly about the nation's capital becoming a destination for sex tourism.
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In the interview at his home, Mr. Comey imagined it was "darkly funny" to Mrs.
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Schimberg's film is odd, darkly funny and — when it means to be — a little frightening.
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His beats, made with analog gear, are darkly minimalist, with welcome splashes of bluesy piano.
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"Someone here has a negative attitude and doesn't belong here," he told the group darkly.
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Where her earlier records could be strikingly naturalistic, this one is darkly ornate and dreamlike.
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Where her earlier records could be strikingly naturalistic, this one is darkly ornate and dreamlike.
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He intoned darkly that there might be more to Sessions' recusal than is publicly known.
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Then I decided it was possible to write a darkly comic book about the experience.
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It's not that Hollywood movies, and even Hollywood blockbusters, can't handle a darkly cynical tone.
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That deliberately muted aesthetic was meant to underscore the show's darkly comic and unsettling themes.
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If this is friendship, it's darkly co-dependent; if it's true love, it's a tragedy.
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They played married high school sweethearts Ed and Peggy on the darkly funny, offbeat crime drama.
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It featured green fire, a darkly lit lake and looks of astonishment on the characters' faces.
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The whole film has an addictive, almost festive energy that runs alongside its darkly plausible plotline.
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It is true that Trump rallies were darkly angry festivals of fear-mongering about The Other.
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And Pallotta's final interview with the camerabot is disappointing for him, but darkly hilarious for viewers.
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And they note, darkly, that the Arab spring gave them guidance on how not to proceed.
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Toro told me some of her friends joked darkly about the thrilling results of this diet.
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A study in relentless verbosity, it somehow managed to remain darkly comedic, blackly cynical, and delightful.
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Girls' experiences work to undo national narratives in Talya Lavie's darkly comic "Zero Motivation" (2014), too.
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WASHINGTON — Executives of the International Monetary Fund mutter darkly about Greeks tapping their phones in Athens.
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In many instances in the script, the violence feels very over-the-top, almost darkly comedic.
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But right now, in the present I'm telling you about, I saw through a glass, darkly.
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One moment form appeared solid and firm, and the next fleetingly cloud-like and darkly fugitive.
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Mazie Hirono of Hawaii darkly insinuated that Ms. Barrett would apply Catholic morality to decide cases.
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"You have the right to know what Brussels is planning to do," the posters warned darkly.
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But why is his darkly neo-Romantic and teeming Piano Concerto almost never performed these days?
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Not even the summer films themselves could offer the darkly comic twists and turns of MoviePass.
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But as Mr. Lazarides explained, Bansky intended for the artwork to carry a darkly satirical message.
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I watched A Scanner Darkly the other week for the first time in probably a decade.
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He warned darkly that "our country will be changed forever" at the hands of socialist conspirators.
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Van Hove felt strongly that it could still honor Shakespeare and be shaded darkly — more Beckettian.
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Sudeikis extensive voice acting may be why "The Mandalorian" tapped him for this darkly hilarious role.
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And the law looked darkly on Leyla, because her sexual availability was destructive to family life.
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But they're also incredibly funny, full of heart, and shot through with a darkly comedic streak.
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Love's strongest pieces here feature one, two, or three figures in tightly cropped, darkly comic scenes.
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Similarly, the new biometric system darkly parallels how suspects are fingerprinted as they're brought into the station.
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Speaking with PEOPLE, his uncle David wonders darkly if his death was not some kind of mercy.
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It's where the back of an animal is more darkly pigmented than its belly, which is paler.
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This finale explores that idea in starkly, darkly funny detail — and features a surprising burst of blood.
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Now, with a series of brutal, darkly funny memes, they've turned a narrowed eye toward school shootings.
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Ten years after its release, Twilight stands as a powerful, darkly stylish depiction of teen female desire.
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Earlier works of his in particular are laced with darkly comical allusions to negative emotion and death.
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In her comedy special "Nanette" she offered a darkly funny exploration of growing up gay in Tasmania.
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It's richly, darkly satisfying to know that I'm forcing a robocall to talk to a Google robot.
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It's occasionally darkly funny, and by the end of the short first season, it's also pretty cathartic.
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The problem was, Duda's outfield sojourns simply weren't very credible, and were at times rather darkly comic.
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Making use of a modern fear, The Occupation chronicles the darkly political aftermath of a terror attack.
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Considering we've known for about half a century that cigarettes can kill people, that's (darkly) comically slow.
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But something about the way it so readily compared it to racism seems oversimplified and darkly laughable.
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But other aides have darkly joked there are really just three options: Rare, Medium and Well-Done.
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It's a darkly-lit crime thriller told in reverse, just like Christopher Nolan's 2000 Oscar-nominee, Memento.
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His cheek-to-jowl hang of moldering collages inflicted on vintage rock posters is often darkly visionary.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '60s, the mood of art was darkly rueful.
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None of the people I call patriots see America that darkly or take such an incendiary tack.
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In fact, his prose is nothing like Hemingway's: It is jazzier, more lyrical and more darkly comic.
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The instrument, though not the centerpiece of Chrysler's recordings, only adds to her music's darkly hypnotic atmosphere.
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Rocky's lyric floats over Purity Ring's darkly shimmering synths, and a noticeable swagger creeps into my stride.
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I was in my late teens, darkly in love with someone who wasn't in love with me.
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Comedy, whimsy and a little danger ensue, with Sparky being one of Burton's most darkly adorable characters.
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Yet Republicans speak darkly of the awful environment their candidates face in midterm elections 0003 days away.
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The second movement, innocently titled Waltz, emerged in this performance as a slyly luxurious, darkly manipulative dance.
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Another work in the exhibition tells the darkly funny story of Eos, the goddess of the dawn.
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"I will spare you now the video of mass production of leather," Mr. Ingenlath said, somewhat darkly.
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" Resist the urge to answer darkly; instead, try, "Dressier than office, but not as fun as cocktail.
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Thickening the plot, White House aides darkly mutter that the Vermont senator honeymooned in Soviet-era Moscow.
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Nyles' blasé attitude toward his situation makes for a darkly amusing contrast to Sarah's shock and confusion.
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Critics Consensus: "Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, 'Chained for Life' is as unpredictable as it is original."
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He also warned darkly of danger for the the country if the Trump continues to act rashly.
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It's a darkly funny moment of dissonance and inhumanity in a film all about dissonance and inhumanity.
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And she does so with insight, grace and excruciating clarity, in exquisite and sometimes darkly humorous prose.
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Katharine reigns over one; at first she's all but entombed in her darkly lighted, wood-paneled empire.
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As a hardcore karaokephile, nothing can keep me out of that darkly lit, laser beam-filled room.
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And of course, the setting darkly reflects the context in which it was written, in occupied France.
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The architect slowly circled the offending pool, muttering darkly, and striking its edge repeatedly with his cane.
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To begin, there is darkly concentrated onion soup, choked with melted Gruyère that seems never to run out.
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If refugees come to Wakanda, one character warns darkly, then all of their problems will come with them.
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That doesn't sit well with the Lyon, who darkly warns her to never say anything about Cookie again.
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Even when Mr Trump darkly threatened to jail her if elected, she blandly directed viewers to her website.
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In response to this, many Mexicans appear to have adopted a darkly comic way to vent their frustrations.
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In February 2015, Pompeo appeared on Gaffney's radio show and warned darkly of an Islamic conspiracy against America.
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Barthelme's novel looks at fatherhood from many different angles in his characteristic fragmented style and darkly humorous prose.
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To a historian 100 years later, Verdun does yield a meaning, in a way a darkly ironic one.
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Edling's lyrics are darkly comic—fixated on failure and pain and the stupidity that accompanies both of them.
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But, unlike The End Of The F***king World, a darkly comedic murder isn't at fault; superpowers are.
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The choice was darkly appropriate; early pregnancy usually comes with both nausea and increased appetite, an unpleasant combination.
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When a deal was eventually reached, Mulvaney voted against it, warning darkly that excessive debt threatened the country.
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Titled New Path, their latest record was conceptually inspired by Phillip K. Dick's chimeric masterwork A Scanner Darkly.
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One is a straightforward through a mirror darkly vision of the US election through Russian media machine eyes.
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Many AI experts pooh-poohed Kissinger's article for extrapolating too broadly and darkly from the field's narrow accomplishments.
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Barrett uses humor to bring up darkly serious themes, and his prose reflects on racial identity in Nigeria.
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In one of many darkly funny scenes in Babylon Berlin, fancy rowboats jet past on a Berlin lake.
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"We don't want another Helsinki," Lee's boss (Brian Cox) warns darkly, hinting at problems with Morgan's artificial forbears.
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Southland Tales is instead a darkly funny reflection of our own fractured identities and messy pop-culture landscape.
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Roberts), and Artbelly rotoscopers Jennifer Deutrom (Waking Life) and Michael Garza, who both worked on A Scanner Darkly.
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Universal Paperclips , a new free game from designer Frank Lantz, instead takes this to its darkly literalistic conclusion.
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Senior White House staff darkly joke among themselves every time a fresh bad story comes out about Pruitt.
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Every major American character in the book is aggressively and darkly comic, and Lethem practically apologizes for it.
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The Circle's premise is darkly obvious — the trailers alone are overt PSAs for the evils of social media.
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Prurient, futile and unconscionably long, his darkly comic portrait of teen life has an unusually high body count.
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" Then she points to the audience and back at her and quips, darkly: "This is an abusive relationship.
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With I Killed My BFF, say, I laugh with you about it now because, somehow, it's darkly funny.
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Here's a chart comparing the March and December plots, with the median FOMC member's projection shaded more darkly:
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With friends, they wondered darkly whether it could happen at their own school, and who might do it.
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I'll happily devour a plate of extra-crisp, darkly browned fries as my dinner, along with a salad.
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The women I spoke to ran the gamut from earnest and acutely kind to edgy and darkly comic.
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Graying and brawny, garrulous and darkly funny in the way of soldiers, Oleg A. carried an AK-47.
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Curiously, whole stretches of the music have a darkly comedic cast, in the manner of Fellini film scores.
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In the darkly comic adaptation, Mr. Radcliffe plays a sleep-deprived and slightly manic version of Mr. Fingal.
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You have turned the last page of Lucy Ives's intricate, darkly funny debut, and a curious timeline appears.
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" About the presidential assassination that put Johnson in the Oval Office, he hinted darkly, "What a strange coincidence.
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The consequences are explored with insight and a thriller's twists and turns in Gundar-Goshen's darkly ambitious novel.
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The former Donald Trump insider Steve Bannon has hinted darkly about the Trump family's exposure to money laundering.
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And Orville's attempts to thwart Sundial's scheme form a compelling narrative, with unexpected twists and darkly comic turns.
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Richard Linklater used rotoscoping to give Waking Life its dreamlike quality and A Scanner Darkly its psychedelic feel.
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She clearly caught DeGeneres in a lie, and for many, the resulting awkwardness was darkly satisfying to watch.
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The fields gave way to darkly arching oaks, tree tunnels shading a narrow country road outside Winters, Calif.
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This group's most recent album, "American Tragic," from 303, is a minor masterpiece of darkly glamorous goth-pop.
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JH: The series features several animated selections like Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and A Scanner Darkly.
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I imagine Llewyn Davis, the protagonist of Joel and Ethan Coen's darkly comic Inside Llewyn Davis, would agree.
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Here, Riverdale nails what all darkly pleasurable high school stories are really about: nothing is ever as it seems.
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Instead, the Best Picture trophy went to the third frontrunner, Guillermo del Toro's darkly fantastical The Shape of Water.
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She thus belongs to a cult of darkly glittering satirists whose high-priests are Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman.
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In addition to Blade Runner, Broad also "taught" his autoencoder to "watch" the rotoscope-animated film A Scanner Darkly.
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Dragonflies buzz, darkly busy, reminiscent of drones, through these later paintings: insubstantial menaces whirring easily across Qureshi's curved earth.
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Still, House Democrats hinted darkly that if the public only knew what they did, there would be no doubt.
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One of the harshest indictments of Bush's legacy came about thanks to the darkly ironic timing of his death.
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The late 1920s and early 1930s are widely regarded in the US—darkly—as the golden age of kidnapping.
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They slowly become more and more obsessed with one another, in darkly told tale of lust mixed with strategy.
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That's why he figured he could accuse the president of tolerating terrorist attacks — or, he hinted darkly, abetting them.
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The tone it has is perfect for a movie that is darkly comedic and celebrates a time long forgotten.
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So many enemies of the people were being uncovered that individual apartments were turning over with darkly absurd speed.
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Parts of the lithe Fifth are misjudged, but the Seventh is typical Jaap: unyielding, with a darkly thrilling finale.
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Ms. Goldin's darkly circumscribed vision also may have something to do with her heavy drug use during the '80s.
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There has been an increased demand for darkly painted walls, but white is still the preferred option these days.
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This entertaining farce, packed with comic characters, displays his usual darkly funny style and appreciation for Florida's endless idiosyncrasies.
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He looked like someone who just realized that a night of comedy — however entertaining — was going to finish darkly.
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It's chilling and should stand out to anyone watching what has otherwise been a darkly funny movie so far.
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The only character who seems to genuinely care about the world is, in a darkly ironic turn, Whitney's father.
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Mr. McDonagh's darkly comic "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" also evoked comparisons to the strife in Charlottesville in August.
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The filling was softly gelled, sour and darkly complex from the bittersweet coating, and the crust crumbly and rich.
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And most darkly, what happens when a former student sues a university for not including them in this fair?
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Another series is a darkly comic spin on a homophobic black-and-white animation from the early 20th century.
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It's one of the more darkly amusing, if still dangerous, stories I have of my devil-may-care father.
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Both pieces achieved a darkly trancelike quality and, in their embrace of slowness and repetition, weren't always warmly received.
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She signed a deal with Merge Records for her achingly romantic, darkly realistic portrayal of love on Silver Tongue.
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Which is to say that every writer begins as a reader — often the peculiarly helpless and darkly alienated kind.
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"Usually Chris calls me and says, 'Hey, we need you to come in and chat,' " Bonnell explains, smiling darkly.
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And Leila Taylor's Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul is a personal reflection on the black American goth.
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Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman star in this unsettling, darkly comedic drama set in 18th-century Britain.
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Tommy Pallotta, a producer on "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly," joined the "Undone" team as an executive producer.
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In the darkly comic novel "The Heap," Sean Adams explores what happens to survivors after a skyscraping utopia collapses.
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It's why every pregnant federal employee I know jokes -- darkly -- about the possibility of giving birth in their office.
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Yet as Katie shadows Alicja around her neighborhood and to auditions, their relationship takes on a darkly controlling hue.
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Mr. Rowe blamed himself, saying that an offhand suggestion to a desperate, ragged Mr. Mulvany had been darkly misinterpreted.
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Her parents warn her not to see him, muttering darkly about a problematic father, but Luna is in love.
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While her set is a serious commentary on the biases of art history, it is also deeply, darkly funny.
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The real-life story is darkly riveting and McCarthy said she jumped at the chance to take on the role.
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After a while, the wait times grew darkly comical, and the ER began to resemble an unruly after-school detention.
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Screenshots from the company's internal chat service obtained by Gizmodo show a darkly comic mood in anticipation of the call.
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You often write your own screenplays, and they're often noted for being bleak and darkly comedic, with distinctive deadpan dialogue.
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Reading She Would Be King is like being carried by that wind, too, and whisked into a darkly magical world.
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He has taken to warning darkly that conspirators are attacking his presidency by frightening the economy into an unnecessary downturn.
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Creating darkly personal diaristic drawings that chronicled her journey through heartbreak, and all the aftershocks that go along with it.
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A subdued group of darkly glazed ceramic vessels from 24 called "Tenebres" are decorated with simple, almost mystical circular patterns.
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Stylistically fearless, the 12 stories are elegantly and darkly imagined: they've got gristle and just the right amount of gore.
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The book ends more darkly, which feels more coherent than the film's confusing effort to include a partially happy ending.
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Because of this interlocking factionalism, Frozen Synapse 22019's vision of tiebreaking is in some ways the most darkly rendered.
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There is something darkly funny and absurd and almost postmodern about demanding a lengthy investigation into an obviously false accusation.
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Biggers had tossed darkly lit captures back and forth with Shawn Peters, a cinematographer and an old friend from Morehouse.
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Bob Odenkirk took a darkly comedic approach to Manson while portraying him for Ben Stiller's comedy show in the 1990s.
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Then, in a television interview on Monday morning, Mr. Trump darkly suggested that the president was sympathetic to Islamic terrorists.
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The punch lines were barbed and frequently unsavory, but she laughed anyway, darkly amused by the daily slights she suffered.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '36003s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '2845s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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On paper, Mr. Talese is not the darkly provocative intellectual that Ms. Malcolm is, nor does he try to be.
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Clinton, or speaks darkly of a "rigged" election, he is not trying to woo Republican skeptics, independents or undecided voters.
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When it was done, the nurses joked darkly with the patient that the doctor must have punched her really hard.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '60s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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A mounting tide of anxiety makes people angrier about society and more darkly pessimistic about the possibility of changing it.
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There was something darkly utopian about it—moshing and chain-smoking mixed with the innocence of flirting and practicing languages.
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Jim Harrison, 78, a darkly comic master of the novella, was also known for his poems and essays on food.
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However it plays out, the situation has darkly stained a venture that was supposed to be a purely positive tribute.
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But just before that film's credits start to roll, an on-screen warning darkly implies that nothing much has changed.
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"We're going in such a darkly different direction with this administration than we've been for so many years," she continued.
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Sanya Kantarovsky's darkly funny eccentrics; Firelei Báez's empowered mythologies; Chris Ofili's Calypso; Tino Sehgal's interpreters; and Carolee Schneemann's cat collaborations.
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Robert O'Hara's world-without-women satire "Mankind" is the latest play to see the future through a lighting gel darkly.
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Vanessa lives on a secluded island where a darkly patriarchal society has settled after fleeing the destruction of a scourge.
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Both have a knack for writing music with repetition and refinement at its heart and a darkly tinted harmonic beauty.
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Take the work of Dorthe Nors, the darkly comic Danish writer, who is at her wiliest when she's most direct.
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Critic score: 96%The morbid children's novels by Lemony Snicket were turned into a darkly charming Netflix show in 2017.
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Ishion Hutchinson's darkly tinged yet exuberant new poems are the strongest to come out of the Caribbean in a generation.
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Letter of Recommendation Let us resist, as another year slides darkly toward its death, the creeping fascism of holiday music.
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H. R. McMaster, in his final speech as Mr. Trump's national security adviser, warned darkly about the growing Russian menace.
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Glück's analyses seem to derive from this grief; she is wary, and sometimes darkly funny about, poetry's temptation toward grandiosity.
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Fittingly, he's coined a term to describe his style, which is at once formally precise and darkly theatrical: minimalist baroque.
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Her insightful, darkly funny memoir may confirm many of your worst fears about big tech and the people driving it.
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Darkly caramelized apples, wound in a spiral and set on a crumbly hazelnut crust, make up the excellent tarte Tatin.
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Both pieces poke at what simmers beneath the placid surface of ordinary lives, and what they unearth is darkly disturbing.
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For its first half-hour or so, Bombshell feels like it might be a smug but darkly clever satirical romp.
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The arrival of Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a gentle, darkly handsome Romanian migrant worker, softens Johnny's heart and the movie's tone.
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An unassailable young virtuoso on trumpet, Evans uses extended technique to create some of the most darkly inscrutable music around.
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Rolling with darkly-lit neon hues, the film begins with a casual text conversation laying out plans to meet up.
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Yet the series isn't afraid of occasionally dropping the hammer, of leaving viewers wondering where some darkly emotional turn came from.
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My neighbor darkly joked about the irony of an energy reporter dying of a natural gas explosion (I was not amused).
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It is easy to see why Chinese officials would view RFA so darkly, even if it were not funded by America.
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Rather, the report warned darkly, Internet innovations stand to widen inequalities and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.
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The room was darkly lit, and, accompanied by a Beenie Man song, I could almost smell the sex in the air.
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But these darkly comic gaffes are a only keyhole view into the kingdom of dysfunction Juicero's employees have been living in.
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Will it tell the story of a burgeoning agricultural community thrown into mayhem when a darkly dressed robber comes to town?
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He has gained momentum darkly warning that national security is at risk unless Muslim refugees are delayed from entering the country.
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That track "Do a Little Dope," which Noisey is premiering here, might be his most undeniably infectious and darkly funny yet.
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Ranking explanation This is another enjoyably unpleasant story, and a darkly fun twist on the deal-with-the-devil morality tale.
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If Valentine's Day makes you feel more darkly humorous than sweetly romantic, the Bronx Zoo has the right gift for you.
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News outlets darkly intoned about any instance in which a Trump insider had spoken to or met with a foreign official.
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Some people, however, refused to believe that they were not jihadist attacks, warning darkly of a conspiracy to hide the truth.
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I can buy Denise making that speech, and I can imagine a version of the scene that plays as darkly humorous.
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And now, there's this guy, who seems less interested in darkly comic anarchy than he is with just being an asshole.
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Even before A Scanner Darkly we did a short called Roadhead and Snack and Drink, so there are so many styles.
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Yet there's something about this story of unhallowed arts that makes it darkly resonant for queer artists beyond any other group.
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Bieber attended the grand opening of West Coast Customs Burbank Headquarters with newly bleached hair and a darkly colored, casual outfit.
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Social Creature, by Vox's religion reporter Tara Isabella Burton, is one of the most darkly shimmering books I've read this summer.
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The worlds that the director Matteo Garrone creates onscreen sometimes seem as far out and darkly mysterious as an alternate universe.
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The work, based on Luis Buñuel's darkly satirical 1962 film of the same name, will have its American premiere on Thursday.
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We see our virtues and vices reflected in animals — hardworking beavers, indolent sloths, innocent lambs, greedy vultures — through a glass darkly.
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This one's in a completely different register, though: swoony romantic, with a CW-style pop soundtrack and darkly gorgeous British landscapes.
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The second is of a car turning down a darkly lit street, which veers toward a home perched on a hill.
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He did change with the tide, however, producing in the early 1980s darkly baroque meditations on the threat of nuclear destruction.
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Mr. Strömholm's sense of family was colored, darkly, by his father's suicide and his mother's remarriage to a wealthy ship broker.
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This is to say that fandom and spectatorship, of late, have grown darkly possessive as the country has become violently divided.
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I still frequently stumble upon his tweets when someone I follow quotes them, with the addition of some darkly hilarious commentary.
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Wonderful "A Scanner, Darkly" vibe to the "tutorial injection" that Abar receives as part of her treatment for overdosing on Nostalgia.
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It's also raw, dense, violent, scalding, darkly comic, exhilarating and exhausting — a testament to Mr. James's vaulting ambition and prodigious talent.
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It doesn't exactly seem like a recipe for a darkly comic yet heartfelt novel, but that's exactly what "Goodbye, Vitamin" is.
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Sabiston, like Linklater, was based in Austin, and they collaborated again on the 2006 Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly.
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Gibson shrugged into a darkly futuristic tech-ninja shell by Acronym, the Berlin-based atelier, constructed from some liquidly matte material.
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In this faux documentary, the relationship between an American filmmaker and her troubled immigrant subject takes on a darkly controlling hue.
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Much of what happens from there is indescribable — opaque, divorced from any expectations of narrative causality, heavily referential, and darkly hysterical.
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In the techno-dystopian wheelhouse that is Charlie Brooker's darkly imaginative anthology series, Black Mirror, that is often the case at hand.
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But Mr Gilliam's fans will lament the almost complete absence of his usual flights of fancy and darkly spectacular handmade special effects.
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Dr. Robaei found "multiple darkly pigmented subconjunctival concretions" inside Lynch's eyelids, "some eroding through the conjunctival surface," according to the case study.
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While Philo was all about the smart, cool, and contemporary woman, Slimane looked to the darkly sexy underworld of clubs and punk.
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He warned darkly that "a large number of my colleagues will have that same view", raising the prospect of a leadership challenge.
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Darkly and Acai's very public competition for the first Soulless 2 FC run generated a lot of traction on YouTube and Twitch.
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In this darkly satirical speculation, Blake Montgomery imagines a world where the drive towards wellness is not only fully institutionalized, but omnipresent.
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The characters speak chaste Haryanvi, have no regard for the law, the frames are darkly lit and the background music is ominous.
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Featuring cute, Seuss-like illustrations and darkly hilarious rhymes, Cohen's book would make a perfect bedtime read for the children of Westeros.
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After all, goths have long lived darkly and deliciously in Latin America, incurring the fascination, amusement, concern, and sometimes fear of many.
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There's a darkly comic streak in Patrick's plight, but also the nagging specter of the traumatic childhood that left him so damaged.
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The opening was titanic: Chris Martin's trumpet solo had a darkly triumphant ring, and the first full orchestral chord shook the room.
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Her last two songs—"Violence" and "Pretty" (Demo)—suggest a return to the darkly minimal synth-pop sound she mined on Visions.
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Collections, like people, have biographies, and none are more Shakespearean and darkly Russian than the interwoven biographies of Shchukin and his collection.
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Mr. Winters just sold two more books to Mulholland, including "The Prisoner," a darkly magical legal thriller that deals with mental illness.
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Some of his supporters have darkly predicted riots and even revolution if he loses to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, on Tuesday.
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Then there is sauerkraut, tucked into two tightly wound spring rolls, darkly bronzed and glistening, giving no hint of their unorthodox interior.
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And the darkly funny truth is that when people like Moore are in power no one, not even Matthew Walther, is safe.
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These are the kinds of intrusions that would normally distract from the forensic detail for which Deaver's darkly witty series is noted.
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Lee Durkee's disarmingly honest and darkly comic sophomore novel, "The Last Taxi Driver," is the most recent of these narratives of displacement.
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Is Twin Peaks: The Return a tulpa of Twin Peaks — a copy that is eerily unlike the original, and darkly, unpredictably dangerous?
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As a work of art, it can be perceived as celestially utopian or darkly pessimistic — or as a membrane between the two.
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Before that sets you to muttering darkly, recall that Gaines insisted on drafting a Latvian unicorn by the name of Kristaps Porzingis.
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Here, juggling becomes flights of inspired poetry, musical choreography with strong dance elements, crazy-comedy surrealism, breathtakingly dexterous virtuosity, darkly absurdist drama.
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It's darkly witty but backs up every savage assertion about an industry in which, in the intervening six decades, little has changed.
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It was a fearsome mix of criminals and "unknown Middle Easterners," Mr. Trump claimed darkly, one that constituted a genuine national emergency.
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The rapper will perform unreleased wrestling raps along with some of the darkly absurd music he has spent the past decade refining.
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He loves his apartment, but many in the city joke darkly that a prison cell would be larger than their expensive lodgings.
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Thomas Adès's "The Exterminating Angel," based on the classic, darkly comic Luis Buñuel film, comes to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, Oct.
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And they aren't even the worst of the miscreants that the playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, has yanked from his darkly comic imagination.
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Everyone thought the eclipse was awesome, but now we're not so sure — for all the recent ruin seems deeply, darkly not coincidental.
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Wired called the project "something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia" and Read Write called it "a human science experiment".
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Jessica found it darkly funny that it was a missing retainer, and not her brain injury, that ultimately led to Matthew's arrest.
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Enzo Weyne can teleport a light bulb, which seems less helpful, but he is French and darkly handsome, so invite him, too.
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The overall effect is darkly funny, but as Berlin's real gardens wither in a historic heatwave, the apocalyptic gallows humour is unsettling.
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Tim Heidecker (one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric) plays a version of himself in this darkly comedic campaign movie spoof.
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It's been out for less than two years and is already on its way to being a classic of darkly suspenseful horror.
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The threat to America did not necessarily come from abroad, The Times said darkly in an accompanying article about domestic defense measures.
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Think Manchester by the Sea meets Thoroughbreds in this darkly funny tale coming-of-age tale of sisterhood, scored with soaring sea shanties.
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Sure, on one hand you're watching a darkly comic tale about a group of down-on-their-luck women navigating life behind parts.
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The underside of the woman's eyelids had multiple "darkly pigmented concretions," which means the mascara had accumulated into hard masses, like tiny rocks.
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Brecht's savage, sardonic view of war as a man-made machine that produces as much profit as blood glimmers darkly throughout the show.
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It's a puzzle game, an online community, and a role-playing interactive web toy, but mostly it's weird as hell and darkly hilarious.
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The rejection of that argument prompted Masaaki Taniai, Japan's fisheries minister, to warn darkly that he would have to consider "every available option".
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Childhood trauma aside — this film holds a place in our collective nightmares alongside Return to Oz — The Witches is sharp and darkly funny.
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It was when South Carolina was similarly emerging as a critical state for him, and where the race took a darkly negative turn.
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That's why it was reassuring (however darkly) to see the digital speech mob—often maligned for good reason—mobilize around this particular situation.
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I can't think of anyone who would hate being on The Bachelor more than the incredibly talented and deeply, darkly funny Alia Shawkat.
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Eugenie Schwartz, an artist who found popularity and renown in her native New Orleans for her surreal, darkly humorous pieces, died on Dec.
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Her figures are very darkly hued against inky backgrounds with nuanced palettes, making them impossible to capture with anything but the naked eye.
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Catherine finds out she's been hoarding her meds, and discovers a notebook filled with darkly confessional lyrics that she's been writing in secret.
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She in turn models him, in a bronze as darkly energetic and grave as anything produced in Paris at the fin de siècle.
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Now that strategy is in tatters and government officials joke darkly that the "win-win" relationship has a new meaning: China wins twice.
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"Parasite" is a darkly comic morality play, a parable about the dangers of the class divide and the way capitalism traps us all.
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In contrast to the future-oriented euphoria of the '210s, however, the mood of art in the '260s was retrospective and darkly rueful.
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His struggle to find his way in this mental labyrinth is all the plot Evenson needs to spin a suspenseful, darkly comic tale.
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I'm afraid I found it harder to engage, and while Brodsky's imagery is often darkly brilliant, a sense of torpor set in eventually.
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"I've been subjected to clubs," she says darkly, referring to the Hollywood hotspots she frequented during her partygirl days in the mid-2000s.
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"Playtest" brings Fredric Wertham vigor to immersive VR, with a darkly comic stinger that suggests you drop the controller and call your mom.
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Before Guillermo del Toro was winning Oscars for fish sex period pieces, he brought Mike Mignola's darkly beautiful Hellboy comic books to life.
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Some have also come up with rather creative workarounds, such as wearing large, darkly tinted sunglasses and those paper face masks doctors wear.
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I prefer a quick grill to darkly sear the outside of the pork, leaving the center juicy and with a blush of pink.
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This comedy series about the stock market crash of 1987 is darkly resonant after Wall Street's fall this week, its worst since then.
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The memo opens darkly, raising "concerns with the legitimacy and legality" of Justice Department and F.B.I. interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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One such researcher, Steen Rasmussen, admitted darkly: "I feel in some way that I am committing sin by the things I am doing."
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Here, the titular hunters use any means necessary to target and take down the Nazis living amongst them, often to darkly comedic results.
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This novel about a 21929th-century whaling expedition is as gory as Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," as darkly melodramatic as a classic Jacobean drama.
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" Later, it's darkly funny when she draws the phrase "that said" with elaborate curlicues, as her father mockingly imitates her fancy "university language.
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Even the chancellor weighed in from afar during a visit to South Africa: "It was a bad day for democracy," she said darkly.
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When speaking freely, some offer theories, a few darkly sensationalistic and sinister; a few theorists seem reasonable, but others come across as preposterous.
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But the storm blew over, and years later "American Psycho" was picked up for a darkly comic film, a musical and other adaptations.
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What he's really after, in this darkly comic narrative about the search for the collapse's lone survivor, is an exploration of communal life.
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In Paris they mutter darkly about Germany's export-dependent economic model; in Berlin they fret about the president's fragile grip on his country.
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With a premise not exactly built for laughs, Kehlmann still manages a few darkly comic flourishes, especially when it comes to family life.
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In A Scanner Darkly, Phillip K. Dick imagined a "scramble suit" that projected the likenesses of millions of other people onto the wearer.
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It's for that reason that people are always threatening darkly to remove Chris Pratt, rumored Trump supporter, from his place in the quartet.
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To the Editor: The actions of protesters at the Charles Murray lecture at Middlebury College were obnoxious but not, I think, darkly ominous.
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Sam Shepard's darkly funny tale of sibling rivalry returns with Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano as California brothers in arms and at throats.
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But as a solo pianist Mr. Blake likes to move slowly and darkly through his music, sounding both implacable and open to anything.
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Parasite returns to those themes with superb control; it's a darkly comic story about family that's also a caustic tale of class conflict.
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Darkly stained wooden bedside tables with leather pulls repeated the organic theme, while a desk with open shelves veers in a modern direction.
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"Essentially, the diagnosis would have to be made after delivery, which seems a bit ridiculous if you think about it," she says darkly.
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I think true crime does a darkly magical thing: you know what's going to happen and it still manages to be shocking and painful.
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A Catch 22 for the Iraq War, Abrams's debut novel is a darkly humorous look at the American troops in a Forward Operating Base.
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Warning about the "military-industrial complex" makes him cool in a darkly prophetic sort of way, and the whole "defeating Hitler" thing was good.
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A red-faced Medvedev trudged to his seat to munch darkly on a banana but did not spend too long chewing on the setback.
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If anything, criticism only cemented his position as a "free speech warrior" among conservatives, and his role as a darkly charismatic villain for liberals.
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Orphan Black, the Canadian science fiction show that revolves around human cloning, will end on Saturday, August 12th after five darkly funny, gory seasons.
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His"Slave Play", which dramatised a darkly amusing form of antebellum sex therapy for interracial couples, opened off-Broadway to rapturous reviews in December.
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"Sympathy," one of the album's most richly candid moments, is darkly funny and caustic; "Spring Snow" and "Unbearably White" are poignant and vividly drawn.
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The film's evocative atmosphere, flashes of violence that Tarantino is known for, and darkly comic moments elicited some early rave reviews following the premiere.
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Jackson began his career in New Zealand, working with similarly geeky friends to produce darkly comic genre pictures with cheap but imaginative special effects.
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It features a surprising number of darkly inspired laughs, thanks to creator Sharon Horgan (who also co-created Amazon's much more traditionally amusing Catastrophe).
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We may not admit it at the time, but they can be seriously, darkly humorous — are we alone in having masked laughter as tears?
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In the past decade or so Mr Navarro has penned three books warning darkly of the dangers posed by China's economic and military rise.
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The other film chosen to model for this project is A Scanner Darkly (2006), another adaption of a Philip K. Dick novel (2011 [1977]).
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As a teenager, Lo Scalzo watched The Atomic Cafe, a darkly comic 1982 documentary about nuclear war that included archival footage of nuclear tests.
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Both in and outside animation, it's one of the most darkly real portraits of one's agony as they say goodbye to an abusive parent.
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Like many postmodern collages, starting perhaps with the work of Hannah Höch, lots of the pieces on view rely on jarring, darkly funny juxtapositions.
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The photos of the gorilla that first filled sites like Twitter, Reddit and 4chan have turned into darkly humorous jabs at the controversial situation.
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If this doesn't sound very funny, you've obviously never heard Tig's standup which is deadpan, silly, and darkly funny all at the same time.
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Across his albums with Pregnancy and Ciggie Witch, Zac's songs became more darkly toned, and he began to experiment more with form and style.
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Only when such a swerve of consciousness can finally become an irreversible gesture can we the people hope to heal a darkly fractured land.
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Ah Young Hong (Friday) Last year this dramatically uncompromising soprano starred in a darkly powerful opera by Michael Hersch about terminal illness and death.
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"Mad Men" was brilliant (and darkly funny) on this particular subject, full of damaged people damaging one another on their way up the ladder.
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During its original run, "Daria," a spin-off of Mike Judge's "Beavis and Butt-Head," followed the life of its darkly comedic title character.
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But on opening night on Saturday, it proved itself more visceral than "Sweeney Todd," and just as darkly up-to-date in its message.
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"The Florida Project's" brightly colored cinematography contrasts with the heavy nature of the film's subject matter to create a darkly beautiful film about childhood.
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The stories interconnect and diverge darkly through the tormented recollection of her classmate Clay (Dylan Minnette), who loved her from afar until the end.
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Nevertheless, within today's social concerns and aesthetic preferences, I find his earlier, quirkier, semi-abstract, figurative work from the 1920s darkly brilliant and germane.
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Russians fear the building, joking darkly that the nine-story edifice is the highest in Moscow: From the windows inside you can see Siberia.
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"Song From the Uproar" (2012) showed she could mingle acoustic instruments and darkly propulsive electric guitar while guiding a singer through duskily lyrical intensity.
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But the two Moseses were intensely devout and at times darkly pessimistic about the prospects of a Jewish life in a non-Jewish world.
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But their friendly charades gatherings are about to get raunched up a few notches in "Game Night," a darkly comic adventure, opening Friday, Feb.
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A few, like Lois, who had travelled from Los Angeles, warned darkly of "gay domination" and "schools teaching anal sex to five-year-olds".
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One of the most remarkable things about the first season of "Killing Eve" was its tone: darkly funny and sexy, and so often surprising.
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A radio commission gave life to this darkly ruminative work, shot through with flashes of rhythmic exuberance, in 1981, when the composer was 25.
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PARELES Profound despair yields to unbreakable resolve in "The Big Unknown," a gorgeous, darkly luminous dirge that continues Sade's gradual and welcome re-emergence.
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With later work, like "Good for Otto" (22016) and "The Black Monk" (22062), he continues experimenting — still darkly comic, probingly psychological, channeling stubborn ghosts.
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And it features themes — monster mothers, emotionally crippled children, love that dies aborning — that have always been dear to Mr. Silver's darkly sentimental heart.
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"This is a story about me, and I am the hero of it," Morgan narrates at the start of this darkly funny, honest novel.
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There have also been reports that other shows were canceled for being too violent, or tinkered with to avoid too darkly comedic a tone.
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Like Mr. Holmes, he finds comfort in "Star Wars" jokes, opening his show in a Jedi cloak and intoning darkly about faraway star systems.
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"Un real " focusses on the producers who pull the contestants' strings, and Shapiro's pleasure in the abhorrent gives the series its darkly comic tone.
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The typical red wines, like the commendable assortment of aglianicos and Taurasis we tasted, provide earthy, darkly brooding complements to this happy, familiar fare.
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Alan Rickman, the enigmatic British actor best known for hounding Harry Potter as the darkly exacting potions master Severus Snape, died in London, of cancer.
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Rob's score—reliant on throbbing beats and haunting melodies—goes a long way in helping it frame its explicit violence in a darkly beautiful way.
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Both films end on a similarly grim, darkly optimistic note: Fighting back against the oppressor is possible, even if the results are bloody and chaotic.
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There's full-frontal nudity, violent rape, implied incest, graphic torture and a darkly sexual atmosphere that leads to a number of head-spinningly nasty moments.
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She is shy and darkly funny and has a habit of sitting with one leg pulled to her chest as if to fold herself away.
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"'Better Call Saul' is better than good: It's delightful — in a brutal, darkly comic way, of course," Alessandra Stanley wrote in The New York Times.
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His darkly comedic monster films like The Host and Okja, double as biting social commentaries, often aiming barbs at inequality, particularly in his native Korea.
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Bitcoin's runaway success, and the Great Bitcoin Schism Of 2015, have heightened the two uncomfortable fundamental contradictions still lurking darkly at its heart like Grendel.
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The single "Top of the World," previewed months ago, was a glimpse into this with eerie, processed, and layered vocals paired against darkly minimal drums.
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Almost as much as its prescient, darkly shaded portrait of Assange, The Fifth Estate may end up being remembered as some of Cumberbatch's best work.
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A lot of encounters are darkly, absurdly funny because they involve characters acting out a charade of normal life in a practically post-apocalyptic landscape.
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It also came on a day when a group of prominent conservative national security experts warned darkly that Trump was not qualified to be president.
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Still, as Fiesco, a Genoese nobleman and Simon's unwitting adversary over 25 years, Mr. Furlanetto brought consummate style and darkly rich colorings to his performance.
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He was one of the original "birthers" questioning Obama's citizenship and religion and he likes to hint darkly that Obama is in league with terrorists.
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But somehow the story overtakes him, and other characters — the harpooner, Ned Land (Marcel Jeannin), and the darkly mysterious Captain Nemo (Richard Clarkin) — also appear.
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The many events cited by the FBI darkly illustrate the current fever pitch of conspiracism in America today, and its evolution toward real world violence.
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When the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany's darkly efficient secret intelligence service, the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security Service), fell along with it.
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Xooang Choi darkly distorts the human body, evoking questions over gender and identity and challenging us to think about the boundaries of the human form.
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The novel takes the form of Ruth's diary over that year, resulting in a poignant and even darkly comic exploration of adulthood, relationships and memory.
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He says she was unhealthily obsessed with Ronan — who, Allen writes darkly, seemed to replace Allen in Farrow's affections as soon as he was born.
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In places this darkly brooding score juxtaposes strands of 12-tone writing with crushingly poignant tonality, which raised hackles among modernist composers at the time.
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Inside an electric fence, a litter of pup-size piglets scampered around a fat black sow, miniature hooves flinging muck over their darkly mottled coats.
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A darkly funny jaunt through the misadventures of two shabby London actors as they navigate dreadful weather, pervy uncles, and their drug and alcohol abuse.
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Even when Burnham and Tyler land on what seems to be a brightly-lit desert, the colors we see are a darkly-tinged blue. 2.
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Now a choreographer, he began to build a body of physically fearless, darkly comic work, which gave Batsheva an electric, identifiable style all its own.
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Helen Oyeyemi writes darkly shimmering fairy-tale-like books that linger in the back of your mind for a long time after you read them.
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The tone is sometimes serious but sometimes drifts to being a darkly humorous caper, with jaunty text sliding onto the screen announcing years and locations.
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Her unconventional, darkly funny book follows the lives of two Midwestern cage fighters — one just starting out and one in the twilight of his career.
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"Does the virus only affect overseas travelers?" people asked darkly on Chinese social media, where accusations of a cover-up quickly spread and were censored.
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But its essential insight, that people in power can interpret the law creatively to entrench their power, has been darkly vindicated in places like Hungary.
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Written and created Mae Martin and Joe Hampson, Feel Good tells a darkly funny and deeply personal story of romance, addiction, sexuality, and toxic relationships.
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"We see through a glass darkly" is how St. Paul put it in one of his letters to the Corinthians: We know only in part.
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Even Buttigieg's alliterative bouquet of nouns lacked the muscle of "Make America great again," a darkly coded, dopily elementary slogan that nonetheless did the trick.
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As Lorentzen cuts from the van's occupants to the darkly jeweled street and back again, everyone and everything passing by is told where to go.
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Skillfully translated by Sondra Silverston, "Waking Lions" is a sophisticated and darkly ambitious novel, revealing an aspect of Israeli life rarely seen in its literature.
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The next room of the exhibition is an entirely different scene; the walls are spaced with daringly large, sunken faces and darkly scratched coal eyes.
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MTV isn't the first network one would turn to for a bloody, brutal, and darkly hilarious television show about campus rape culture and vigilante justice.
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When she's not in uniform, Rochelle is styled darkly, with flowing black dresses and matching tights, chocolate lipstick, crucifix earrings, and layers of beaded jewelry.
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Don't worry, we won't judge: If you find murders and the people who commit them darkly fascinating, make sure MINDHUNTER is on your radar this Friday.
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Mennequins. (Photo: AP)LA-based entrepreneurs Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer wanted to create Witchsy, an online marketplace for their feminist-centered, darkly comic fashion accessories.
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Through a lens darkly: China version As smog envelops northern China, planes are being diverted and red alerts are being issued for citizens on the ground.
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Sundance also showcased a first look at Shatterbox's collaboration with Kristen Stewart, whose directorial debut, Come Swim, charts a darkly surreal journey through one man's imagination.
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Even just the first 45 seconds — it switches from oddly hilarious to darkly serious in an instant, balancing those feelings the rest of the way through.
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"And they seemed to have a good time," adds the star, who plays the sinister master of disguise Count Olaf in the darkly comedic Netflix hit.
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What it says about the future: It's hard to isolate any possible trend coming out of a darkly comic quirk-fest of an essentially unknown type.
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Sawyer is a demon, but he fights on Raquel's side to protect her, and he and Raquel keep alluding darkly to significant time they've spent together.
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Bob-Waksberg and Purdy will also executive produce, alongside Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen (both executive producers on BoJack), and Tommy Pallotta (A Scanner Darkly).
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One set of talking points sent to Alliance groups, written by Alliance director Lisa MacLean*, hinted darkly that Bauman and CarbonWA were dupes for oil companies.
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"Some developments in recent weeks have indicated I should get CCTV at home," Rising says darkly, although she refuses to be drawn further on the topic.
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"A force more compulsive than joy is at work here," notes one reviewer darkly, while another accuses Ms Kondo of suffering from an "anorexia of things".
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In this wise and darkly amusing look at one elderly man's descent into senselessness, the audience can't help but identify with his slackening grip on reality.
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If few of them register as completely drawn characters, it must be said that each of the ensemble members belongs organically to same, darkly written page.
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Some, like the darkly heated "Head I" (1948) and enigmatic, elegiac "Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer" (1968), gloriously take up a full page.
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By far the most affecting of his novels is " Street of Thieves " (2012), a darkly winsome coming-of-age story set in contemporary Morocco and Spain.
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Whether it's something with the character, or how DiCaprio plays him, much of the movie is Tarantino delving into the complexities (often darkly comedic) of Dalton.
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In a story that might otherwise be self-serious, Van der Vliet Oloomi resists the standard redemption arc, infusing her protagonist with a darkly comic neuroticism.
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As designed by Starlet Jacobs (set) and Elaine Wong (lighting), Mr. Monteagudo's production has a darkly impressionistic quality that conveys the bewildering nightmarishness of Beau's life.
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Throughout, the narrator—Snicket, maintaining a wry, depressive, and darkly amusing tone—repeatedly tells readers to stop, put down the book, and seek out something happier.
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In last year's election, Law and Justice took a hard-line stance against admitting refugees into Poland, with Mr. Kaczynski speaking darkly about terrorism and disease.
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PARIS — Ettore Sottsass first presented his Mobili Grigi furniture series in 1970 at the Eurodomus trade show in Milan, in a bedroom with darkly apocalyptic décor.
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In both of the entrances/exits of the gallery, as well as this hallway, the lights are dimly lit and darkly colored with atmospheric blue lights.
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Indeed, despite the pessimism that is so deeply embedded into its outlook, there is something darkly romantic about the way it depicts Los Angeles's urban future.
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" Senator Lindsey Graham, a fellow South Carolinian, warned darkly that the firing of the special counsel would be "the beginning of the end of his presidency.
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In one frame, a slab of darkly brooding sky seems to loom down on a skeletal railing that runs across the shot, cleaving it in half.
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In that role, he squired a few network shows and had a critically acclaimed hit with "Six Feet Under," Alan Ball's darkly comic funeral-home series.
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This was a slow finale with high stakes, darkly commanding attention to the very end of a concert that had begun, two hours before, so joyously.
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Mr. Kantarovsky paints disconcerting, darkly funny scenes of lovers, mourners, children and freaks, and intensifies their eccentricity through unexpected contrasts of oil paint with drippy watercolor.
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Moshfegh's writing is darkly comic, tracing how the heroine uses a stupefying combination of medications to overcome her grief and alienation from the world around her.
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An intimately staged and darkly revisionist revival of "Oklahoma!" that enjoyed a critically acclaimed and sold-out Off Broadway run will transfer to Broadway this season.
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In fact, this one's most darkly hilarious scene involves a demise in a club so murky that it's hard to tell the living from the dead.
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Being wary of Siobhan, the Irish madonna who makes this gory entrance at the top of Noni Stapleton's darkly comic solo show "Charolais," does seem justified.
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Take Julia London's latest: A ripped Lucifer in a kilt smolders darkly from the cover, and DEVIL IN TARTAN (Harlequin) renders the image in blunt syllables.
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I brought a small flash to pump some extra light into what was a very darkly but exquisitely lit stage while they were filling the pool.
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E.S.T. Despite pop culture portrayals of Los Angeles as either comically superficial or darkly dystopian, the nation's second largest metropolis is a vivid, soulful, eclectic city.
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Some darkly rich tones provided dramatic dimension for her first-act work before a brighter, brassier sound underlined the character's hopeful delusions in the second act.
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His darkly comedic monster films like The Host and Okja, double as biting social commentaries, often aiming barbs at inequality, particularly in his native South Korea.
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His darkly comedic monster films like The Host and Okja double as biting social commentaries, often aiming barbs at inequality, particularly in his native South Korea.
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Two years later, he would have his breakthrough with the darkly erotic "Firebird"; his rule-breaking "Rite of Spring" would explode on the scene in 1913.
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Watch every minute of her video "In Search of the Perfect Double," a darkly comic masterpiece that plays like "House Hunters" as written by Eugène Ionesco.
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Darkly colored pigment cells are unable to spread as far as they do on other, non-piebald, creatures, in time to pigment the hair and skin.
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Her new play, about two strangers who meet in the cancer hospital where their mothers share a room, is another darkly comic distortion of real life.
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The work is so dry that it comes off as both darkly comic and so believable that you wonder why such a service doesn't already exist.
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Many of the works by the graduating class of Hunter College's MFA program fall, broadly speaking, into one of two categories: darkly political, or irreverently funny.
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In literature, fighters are often portrayed as darkly romantic figures, set apart from their teammates and shrouded by metaphysical sadness, but the reality is hardly ever cinematic.
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"You felt like you weren't alone," Meghan Counihan, who co-wrote the solemn "Brothers" and darkly marching "Got Your Six," told me on a snowy Thursday afternoon.
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That still-boyish smile — used to such darkly subversive effect in "Cabaret" — quickly returned when the talk turned to life passages he was most happy to revisit.
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Such openness is unheard of: typically, politicians refer coyly to the army as the "establishment" and mutter darkly about "angels" instead of invoking the ISI by name.
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Yet, I expect something more darkly complicated is going on behind Ford's "momma's boy" smile, because nothing can be so benignly simple in a thriller like Mindhunter.
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So to help her dream more darkly, she enlists classically inclined producer Leo Abrahams, whose second piano is meant to ensure that "Obsolete" sticks around a while.
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This video (and a day spend trawling the Internet Archive for darkly humorous videos) provides a more intimate portrait of Cold War paranoia as it was lived.
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" (Go deeper in this column.) Bruni said it's possible some donors "giving for only high-minded reasons" will "see their alma maters more darkly than they did.
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We might regard the installation as an allegory of historical understanding and misapprehension, the way our fitful perception of historical fact is filtered through a glass, darkly.
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But the director has also been releasing more experimental projects — things like Cooking with Bill, and a darkly comic three-minute short starring Sharlto Copley as God.
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In her photos and films, which have been widely exhibited and screened, she has also drawn on the macabre, surreal, and darkly funny writings of Dennis Cooper.
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Because his answer almost always boils down to the same darkly pragmatic, but profoundly empathetic point: Recovery, he argues, is a great option for people who recover.
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It's darkly funny, as the show always is, but it also went a long way toward convincing me these characters had actual feelings and emotions and stuff.
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One week after darkly hinting that "Second-Amendment people" could stop his opponent, Hillary Clinton, he now faces a seemingly insurmountable seven-point deficit in the polls.
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This darkly funny take on children's television took a turn for the extremely disturbing with its most recent episode in June — and it was pretty disturbing already.
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Obviously, it's darkly ironic that Emily traveled from the unfathomable horrors of the Colonies to the home of the man who invented them in the first place.
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Wes Anderson takes his love of stylish set pieces and foreign film to tell this darkly comedic coming-of-age story starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
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The movie is a fantastic darkly comedic whodunit that includes an incredible cast: Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, and Chris Evans.
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During another song, the poet recalls a sweet serenade, as orchestral rippling evokes a strummed guitar, until the final darkly poignant vocal phrases, suffused with weeping regret.
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"Good baseball game; that's my takeaway, man," he said, as if he had watched it unspool in a darkly lit loft with Miles Davis on the turntable.
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Maybe the most underrated (and darkly humorous) moment of the series was James forcing Speights into a pick-and-roll despite his best efforts to avoid it.
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"What's kind of darkly interesting about my whole experience is that I thought writing about it would give me some kind of power or retribution," says Florence.
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After Holly darkly tells Tyler that he will regret rejecting her, he gets dragged out of class by the principal and informed that he is suspended indefinitely.
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It's all so darkly comic, the same way it was always tempting to destroy part of a rollercoaster, in Rollercoaster Tycoon, while passengers were already on it.
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In this encyclopedic exposé, a veteran environmental journalist uses darkly humorous stories to illuminate the political, ideological, and physical threats to America's parks, forests, rivers, and monuments.
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Add in some of the darkly comic crime shenanigans of Elmore Leonard's neo-noir novels set in Florida — another seeming influence — and you have a potent brew.
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For more, see Ms. Stern's postcard blog, and a review of the film Through a Lens Darkly that deals with African-American representation in postcards and photography.
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Sometimes, he has been seen as a figure of fun — the manager who sees nothing, the running joke — and sometimes he has been treated much more darkly.
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And, even more darkly, Louise Erdrich's new novel, "Future Home of the Living God," which my colleague Dwight Garner wrote about the other day in The Times.
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Hudson, formerly an editor for McSweeney's, made a splash with his darkly comic debut collection of short fiction, "Dear Mr. President" (2002), set during the gulf war.
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Beth Underdown's darkly resonant novel, "The Witchfinder's Sister," explores another time and another place to lay bare the visceral horror of what a witch hunt truly is.
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Narrator: The brightly colored cinematography in "The Florida Project" contrasts with the heavy nature of the film&aposs subject to create a darkly beautiful film about childhood.
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I've noticed a lot of brilliant women giving up on shouting and complaining, and instead taking on a darkly comic, deadpan tone when writing about their feminism.
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But the trippy romp is also a darkly comic tale of resistance against blood-thirsty U.S. invaders, interspersed with sci-fi worthy riffs about drone-wielding killers.
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The U.S. Consumers Product Safety Commission, for instance, runs a darkly funny (and surprisingly GIF-savvy) Twitter account that teaches consumers how to use certain products safely.
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She wrote a second book, a brisk, darkly comic contemporary novel, "Every Day Is Mother's Day," which became a critical success when it was published in 1985.
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Her parents hint darkly about her aging uterus, and her younger, more relaxed lover (Max Lipchitz) wonders why she refuses to define their connection as a relationship.
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Written by Kurt Johnstad, "Atomic Blonde" is based on "The Coldest City," a darkly shadowed, minimalist graphic novel written by Antony Johnston and illustrated by Sam Hart.
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A fantastic indie from the early 2000s, Jess Weixler gives a darkly comedic performance as a high schooler who discovers she has an advantage over predatory men.
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Masterfully directed by John Frankenheimer and featuring Frank Sinatra's finest acting performance, this hallucinatory masterpiece still manages to be darkly funny and queasily discomfiting in equal measure.
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Donning his "Aladdin" costume at an "Arabian Nights"-themed party for private school staff, Trudeau is seen with his (very darkly colored) arms around two Sikh men.
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The letters are "darkly compelling" and "uneasy, thrilling company," our critic Parul Sehgal writes, because they get to elemental questions about why people do what they do.
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In this darkly comic and provocative work from the director Paul Verhoeven, Ms. Huppert plays a video-game executive coping in unpredictable ways with having been raped.
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Rocking a dirty mind and a sick sensibility, the British import "Prevenge" sends a pregnant serial killer on a darkly comedic odyssey dictated by her malicious fetus.
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Luke Rosiak, a Daily Caller writer and author of a new book alleging a deep state conspiracy against Trump, warned darkly of a war on the suburbs.
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Ms. Reed looked at the world through darkly humorous, satirical and dystopian lenses; happy endings were no more likely in her fiction than they are in life.
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The actresses bring all those skills to bear in the darkly comic "Dead to Me," playing women from different social backgrounds who bond over recent personal traumas.
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There's also a darkly romantic love story, a thoughtful discussion of the uses of soft power, and a downright Greek exploration of the existential ramifications of predestination.
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Installed in the museum's topmost tower gallery, it's surrounded by swimming crocodiles, making it a darkly comic allegory of a world on the brink of — or after — apocalypse.
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Whether they're standing in judgment doesn't matter to William, whose arrogant faith in his own notion of Christianity is as deep and darkly unsettling as his sepulchral voice.
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In addition to darkly witty dialogue and outlandish action sequences, Quentin Tarantino's films are beloved for their rich soundtracks packed with deep cuts and little-known vintage gems.
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God of War goes a slightly different route, creating a blood-spattered, darkly dysfunctional world more akin to the actual myths that Norse-freaks like myself love passionately.
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Unusually, it's all in rhyming verse, but hear an actor like Eddie Redmayne or Sam West in the role, and Shakespeare's verse emerges as darkly troubling, not twee.
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Among the pantheon of dystopian genre films, it lacks either the darkly satirical guiltlessness of Battle Royale or the bleak but thorough societal deconstruction of The Hunger Games.
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Prone to long, leisurely exchanges, and frequently darkly funny, Scorsese's narrative has an almost Zelig-like quality in terms of the notorious figures that passed through Frank's orbit.
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Shannon is at the height of his powers here, and basically no other actor could even have been considered to star in such a darkly comedic romantic noir.
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The 3-4 hour game takes you on a time-tripping and darkly psychedelic journey through the cramped confines of a dingy, rundown apartment complex in 1980s Taiwan.
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After 20 minutes of watching, it's a darkly comedic satire of the culture that asks women to adhere to conventional beauty standards at the risk of damaging themselves.
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It might be darkly unsettling to see all of the similarities between Jessica Jones and Hollywood's current reckoning, but at least it suggests a way forward as well.
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The thing is, this is basically beat for beat the plot of "The Trouble with Tribbles," albeit with a great deal fewer darkly lit interiors and savage beatings.
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In addition to starring together in Dracula, the two stars also share credits on 2006's A Scanner Darkly and 2009's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
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The darkly funny, surreal comedy parodied the corny ensemble-oriented title themes of the 1970s and '80s sitcoms before spiraling into a bizarre slasher film that defied explanation.
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Throw in one very darkly bratty, selfish, sex-and-drugs-experimenting teen sister (Abby Quinn) and you have a recipe for please-get-me-out-of-here. -Josh
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Darkly lit, with leather and wood and brass and tin tile ceilings, it's since been updated with a timeless speakeasy feel for modern dames and their dapper Dans.
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This could be the world we begin to glimpse through a glass darkly on the other side of the turnstile; the millennials' world and our world just ahead.
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Under the banner of Borderland, the duo's collaborative project, comes Transport, a voyage through the darkly warped sounds that shaped techno's trajectory on both sides of the Atlantic.
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"I think it's entirely possible that the population may well exceed 2,000 in a short time," darkly warns Keith Mobley, Antelope city attorney, who practices in The Dalles.
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She's been telling friends about her "Toback story" for decades, though she always left a few details out, so as to make it darkly funny rather than terrifying.
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Throughout the book, Anderson sprinkles in anecdotes from past TED speakers, such as Monica Lewinsky, who told a (darkly) funny story right at the beginning of her talk.
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Lulu's skin looked yellow and darkly bruised, and there was a dart of something red in her right eye that peeked out when she looked in certain directions.
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Starbucks latest lineup of Instagram-inspired beverages has turned heads — from its infamous Unicorn Frappuccino to the Ombre Pink Drink and even its darkly decadent Midnight Mint Mocha.
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"Welcome to Night Vale," which also began in 2012, takes the form of a darkly funny radio show, broadcast from a town where every conspiracy theory is true.
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The effect is chilling, especially in an in-the-round setup at IRT Theater, yet this is as unsettling as Sara Fellini's darkly humorous serial-killing story gets.
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Over at the command center, a large soulless facility that remains somehow darkly filmed despite every wall being glass, technicians inspect humanoid and equine robots in transparent cells.
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A darkly funny holiday classic, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" describes in detail the story of how a grandmother was literally run over by a reindeer.
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Even though "Kapoor & Sons" goes from lightly comic to more darkly dramatic to pretty overtly melodramatic, it never loses its lived-in quality or plunges into the absurd.
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O'Rourke would go on to co-produce Wilco's next album "A Ghost Is Born," which darkly expands and deconstructs even more the studio experiments and successes from Foxtrot.
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The director behind Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, and A Scanner Darkly partnered with the pro-Beto PAC Fire Ted Cruz for the ad, the Dallas Morning News reports.
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Hosted by global gallery Hauser & Wirth's Manhattan location, De Bruyckere's darkly beautiful body of work weaves mythology, history, and personal encounters into fixtures of wax, skins, and metal.
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The unctuous boss played by Mr. Gervais is the focus of the darkly cynical show, but it's actually the reactions to his idiotic comments that make you laugh.
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Mr. Solondz, who is known for darkly comic films like "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness," will present his first play, "Emma and Max," on Oct. 1-28.
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The married Montreal duo Essaie Pas are performing material from "New Path," their album-length riff on Mr. Dick's 19653 novel, "A Scanner Darkly," on their current tour.elsewherebrooklyn.
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The Berlin Philharmonic remains a magnificent musical beast, from its precisely churning double-bass section to its silken-toned woodwind soloists and on to its darkly shining brass.
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LORAIN, Ohio — President Trump's decree placing punitive tariffs on foreign steel raised an outcry in Washington: Republican leaders in Congress warned darkly of a market-rattling trade war.
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In 1990, the choreographer Paul Taylor sent "pseudo death-threats" (his darkly teasing term) — each one a work of art — to five of New York's foremost dance critics.
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Time and again, the president has engaged in a game of geopolitical chicken with Mexico, warning darkly of radical measures that even his own advisers caution him against.
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Famously cryptic and publicity-shy, Lanthimos is known for creating darkly surreal and uneasily hilarious cinematic worlds that reflect our own back to us in a distorted light.
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As in Ms. Kane's script, there are darkly witty passages, too, like the interspersed snatches of electronic music, canned lounge tunes that might play in doctor's waiting rooms.
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The regular "house slice" combines the darkly caramelized, bready crust and pure-tomato flavor of a Neapolitan pie with the grab-and-go portability of a streetcorner slice.
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And whenever people talked about unilateral strikes against North Korea, it was Mr. Mattis who would warn, darkly, of the potential cost to millions of lives in Seoul.
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They speak darkly of the danger of moderates supporting an independent who could enable President Trump to eke out a victory if Mr. Sanders is the Democratic nominee.
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They lacked the darkly comic center of seasons two and three (when the show was at its best), and consequently the ad campaign became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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WHY, THE commander of Thailand's armed forces asked darkly, did Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the leader of an opposition party, meet Joshua Wong, a prominent democracy advocate from Hong Kong?
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He initially rose to popularity within the video-gaming subculture, which, beginning with the "GamerGate" movement and continuing through the American presidential election, became surprisingly and darkly politicized.
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In the guise of a critic, Glück shows herself to be a kind of dark contemporary conscience, but she is also darkly funny about poetry's temptation toward grandiosity.
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So the search is on for people involved in what officials call "Russian influence activities" as well as, more darkly, "sleeper cells" that could be activated from Moscow.
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He now urges an end to legislative filibusters and hints darkly that he will precipitate a government shutdown at the end of September unless the Senate unilaterally disarms.
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In one darkly hilarious sequence, another guard, Dixon, while driving Bayley home, off-handedly describes atrocities he committed in Afghanistan, including strangling a girl he'd had sex with.
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So does Mr. Guirgis, whose vastly compassionate, darkly comic play cross-examines the Gospels, posing complex moral and spiritual questions about divine justice and human failures of virtue.
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The allure of these images of isolated physical features, darkly humorous for their mystifying nomenclature, is undeniable, and has since led to their recent publication in book form.
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Nobody was hurt — he escaped with his wife and four daughters — but the photograph included in "Unseen" telegraphs a delirious horror that nods, darkly, to his subsequent assassination.
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This is cabernet sauvignon that tastes like cabernet used to taste, darkly fruity but with discernible herbal aromas and flavors that are essential to the complete cabernet experience.
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Between the two, he performed John Adams's swirling, murky "I Still Play" Variations and Mendelssohn's darkly brilliant and, at times, vehement "Variations Sérieuses," written in homage to Beethoven.
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But what's interesting is that in Australia, seven years after Bean's first encounter, red mitsubishis had become darkly infamous, and were widely blamed for a series of overdoses.
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Ma said he had been unable to find a Hong Kong publisher for his darkly satirical new novel, whose title echoes one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's slogans.
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The installation is designed to limit our visual access to the work; what we see of it, to paraphrase the biblical passage, is through a limited aperture, darkly.
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Characters break the fourth wall and stock footage is mixed with more traditional scenes to tell the story of the housing collapse, a drama both tragic and darkly funny.
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During Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring protests, for example, then-President Hosni Mubarak warned darkly that the protesters were trying to "destroy Egypt," and accused them of being foreign agents.
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The results were compiled in a study called "Under the Hoodie 223," which not only perpetuates the stereotype of darkly cowled hackers but makes for some pretty interesting reading.
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Cochrane had already played a lead role in Dazed and Confused, and his post-Empire Records career includes performances in A Scanner Darkly, Argo, CSI: Miami and Black Mass.
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His was a darkly luminous, even claustrophobic poetry, brooding over the horrors of European history and the difficulty of attaining moral probity in a world seemingly abandoned by God.
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If you have seen Us, you probably remember "Ophelia," the Amazon Alexa-like voice assistant that plays a key role in one of the film's most darkly funny scenes.
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For as long as it's been a place of news, commerce, and vital information, the internet has also been inundated with the strange, the surreal, and the darkly comedic.
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Or for something equally "risk"-free but a lot more inventive, try The Stanley Parable, a darkly humorous game of fourth-wall breaking exploration, which can take multiple paths.
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To a certain subset of internet users, there's no such thing as a coincidence, and that same mindset has led a few people down a different, darkly conspiratorial path.
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The progressive, melodic, often dreamy doom rock outfit's rotating cast of members was solidified by the darkly ethereal singer Jamie Myers, and the band has settled into a groove.
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The century-old church where the performance takes place is filled with striking sets, darkly amorous music played by a live band and a ferocious Greek chorus of dancers.
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Lacey's audacious, darkly funny second novel, The Answers, out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux on June 6, follows Mary, a broke New Yorker dealing with a mysterious physical ailment.
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The short story is about a Yemenite father and poet, and his son, who has inherited some of the father's predilections, including a particular knack for darkly ironic metaphors.
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Directed by comedian Robin Cloud, Out Again captures one young woman's darkly humorous struggle to introduce her new wife to her parents, even as her mother battles Alzheimer's disease.
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With a setting in mind, Hull went about writing lyrics for something that he saw existing between Twin Peaks, the Album and Fargo, the Album: cold, strange, darkly comic.
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Giannulli was also reportedly on a USC official's yacht when the story broke, which made her episode perhaps the most galling and also darkly funny of the whole bunch.
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A taxi driver with a secret job as a mobster's debt collector finds his life unraveling after he accidentally kills a man in this darkly comic Romanian crime drama.
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But there was something darkly sensual about the way their sweaters, partially unbuttoned, gaped open, or their oversize shirts caught air and filled like sails as they marched by.
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This darkly funny passage from Flavelle's story gives a flavor: There is as yet no federal policy on buying out properties that will be lost to sea-level rise.
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It kept me off guard and created the same kind of enigmatic aura in person that is often conjured by his darkly funny, deeply disturbing, and very emotive art.
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The darkly drawn album showcased a musical maturity that belied its creators' young ages and won industry acclaim, as well as fans in Iggy Pop, Johnny Marr and Lorde.
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Whether in basement, garage or on darkly wooded road, his images are clean and clear; only trust him, and he'll show you which of these characters deserves to survive.
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It's helmed by Bryan Fuller — who brought us the beautifully dark Hannibal and the darkly beautiful Pushing Daisies — and Michael Green, of the little-watched but much-beloved Kings.
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The darkly comedic Tonya Harding biopic "I, Tonya" (Neon) was close behind, collecting about $3 million in 799 theaters, for a total since arriving in limited release on Dec.
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He commended the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, for conducting a thorough investigation into Russia's 2016 meddling, joking darkly about the attacks he endured for appointing Mr. Mueller.
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To transform Luis Buñuel's surreal, darkly satirical 1962 film "The Exterminating Angel" into an opera, the composer Thomas Adès added a few very unusual instruments to the traditional orchestra.
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Senior officials there have called the epidemic the "Wuhan virus," and at least one senator hinted darkly that the epidemic began with the leak of a Chinese biological weapon.
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Some countries, like Hungary, have overtly embraced an old-style national identity, with leaders championing the ethnic origins of the state, warning darkly of foreigners and curtailing basic rights.
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Some of her dialogue often pings with a darkly surreal humor, as when the Pigman tells Otto she can't back out of their contract because it's signed in blood.
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Her eyes gleam darkly, and it's clear that however much Hamlet's madness might be real or feigned, he's relishing the chance to exert physical, bodily influence over his space.
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The first feature that he made there, "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961), creeps into Eggers's movie in its shape, its tonal spectrum, and its fixation on delirium and neurosis.
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For a time Mr. Khanna was one of India's most recognizable stars, a darkly handsome screen idol who appeared in more than 100 films, many of them runaway successes.
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It's the kind of bold grotesqueness that defined Strangers with Candy, Sedaris's darkly satirical cult hit, which was inspired by '70s motivational speaker and ex-drug addict Florrie Fisher.
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The New York Times noted that she dressed darkly to mark the solemn day, adding a golden brooch in the shape of the mace of the House of Representatives.
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Turkish officials have hinted darkly that he was killed there; Saudi officials say he left minutes or an hour after arriving and have denied any involvement in his disappearance.
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The darkly comedic animated series "BoJack Horseman" follows the trajectory of washed-up sitcom actor BoJack Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) and his struggles with sobriety, addiction, and fame.
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The darkly colored sequence is jagged-looking and often out of focus, and the quick cutting and rapid, agitated camera movements at times turn it into an impressionistic blur.
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I wrote two really darkly comic, satirical songs about it in my twenties because that's the only door I could find that would open in terms of this subject matter.
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And those of us who are atheists -- living godless since forever -- have been trying to get a hint as to why so many are suddenly seeing through the glass darkly.
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Release date: TBD A sort of darkly inverse A Star Is Born, Vox Lux is the story of Celeste (Raffey Cassidy), a teenage girl who's wounded in a school shooting.
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He hinted darkly in his videotaped statement on Monday that his conviction, which he described as a result of a "legal snowball," grew out of something more than legal considerations.
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An array of interview subjects, from Malaysian bigwigs with faded clothes to Javanese taxi drivers who believe in royal magic, provide small glimpses of humanity amid a landscape darkly portrayed.
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The darkly quirky action / RPG Nier: Automata has sold 3 million copies, for instance, while Monster Hunter: World sold 7.5 million units, becoming the best-selling title in franchise history.
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His helmet isn't capable of expression, but I always felt a clear "Buh?!?" coming off him in that moment that seemed darkly comedic, yet entirely in keeping with the film.
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These Pocket Camp prisons or "cults" are part of a larger phenomenon in simulation games, where players look for innovative ways to bend the game's rules in darkly imaginative ways.
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Filled with striking imagery and a nagging sense of dread, the series also exhibits a disarming darkly comic streak, as Offred's looks and asides underscore the absurdity of her situation.
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And then there's the most darkly ironic rider of all: the one that blocks an already-approved deal that would prohibit Confederate flags in federal facilities, like parks and cemeteries.
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Simpson sits over darkly shifting waters singing of the warm, rejuvenative power of love, as a beautiful animation shows hearts dropping onto the ocean floor, all in black and white.
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The line between parody and reality is a difficult one to define in these darkly farcical modern times, which so often feel like a trip through the wrong looking glass.
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But on Wednesday, Neon released the darkly comical biopic's first full trailer—and from the look of it, I, Tonya is going to live up to its early rave reviews.
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He also warned New Yorkers that further retrenchment was necessary to obtain federal loan guarantees, darkly invoking the administration of President Gerald R. Ford, which had resisted aiding the city.
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At the start, moreover, she was rooted in a recognizable London, whereas "Mother!" could be situated anywhere; it lunges at the darkly surreal without deigning to pass through the real.
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" The actor John Stamos reprised a part he'd previously played at the Hollywood Bowl: the fish-eating fiend Chef Louis, who gleefully belted out the darkly comic number "Les Poissons.
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Kids and cashiers are getting shot over trifles; in one darkly comic scene, the denizens of the shop try to one-up one another over who's been robbed most often.
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La casa de las flores (NETFLIX ORIGINAL): The outward perfection of a family-run flower business hides a dark side rife with dysfunctional secrets in this darkly humorous comedy series.
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In a darkly comic twist, changes were handwritten into the legislation in the final hours: I was just handed a 479-page tax bill a few hours before the vote.
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Related: Watch a Live Animation Take Its Cues from a Drum Set Indulge Your Inner Grinch with this Darkly Funny Animation Animation Student Makes a Film from Thousands of Desktop
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Tom Pepinsky, a Cornell University political scientist, joked darkly on Twitter: "If you are an easily scapegoatable Turkish politician or social group, now's the time to get out of Dodge."
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For some years he has championed the music of Weinberg (1919-1996), a Polish-born composer from Shostakovich's inner circle, whose darkly lucid music is beginning to gain wider recognition.
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Maniac, a new, darkly comic Netflix miniseries starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is the rare project that I like both more and less the longer I think about it.
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Celebrities became expressionist portraits, and darkly humorous text-based works raised questions about gender identity and the source of an H.I.V.-positive artist's value in the money-mad art world.
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"What I love most about the movie is that while it's really scary, it also has a lot of darkly comedic moments, and this monologue really encapsulates that," he said.
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It's a darkly funny, hyperbolic view of Hollywood in which art is just another form of entertainment, where the act of peddling one's life story begets its own reality show.
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A scene from the insolvency, from Melanie Ehrenkranz of Gizmodo: Screenshots from the company's internal chat service obtained by Gizmodo show a darkly comic mood in anticipation of the call.
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There has been little fiction of note, aside from the one supreme example of the Dutch writer Tim Krabbé's darkly mysterious existentialist novella, "The Rider" (originally published in the 1970s).
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Bong Joon Ho's darkly funny thriller "Parasite" made history at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday in Los Angeles, taking the top prize for best cast in a motion picture.
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There's more than a little "Fargo" in the darkly funny subplot in which a South Dakota man (Matthew Lillard) may have committed murder, à la Leland Palmer, under paranormal influence.
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The final number, "Wake Up," takes its title from a children's song by Woody Guthrie, and the melody is played, sweet and pure, before being taken through darkly dreamlike transformations.
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Its psychology, while darkly intriguing — the protagonist is a man who, unable to recover from the death of his wife, falls in love with her doppelgänger — verges on overly simplistic.
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In 1983, Washington and Moscow took steps that heightened the uncertainty, darkly hinting at each other's illegitimacy and threats of massive retaliation, in a contest for nuclear supremacy, and survival.
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Every character behaved much as his or her Mozartian precedent behaves — except for a darkly Machiavellian protagonist, the Major, conjured up by Mr. Pountney as the driving force behind the plot.
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That the Northwest Passage, once nearly impassable due to ice, will see a carnivalesque cruise ship power through its waters later this year is just one darkly humorous, yet dystopian, example.
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The film&aposs gruesome but darkly comic ending elicited stunned laughter from its audience when it was the featured film at a science fiction movie marathon in Los Angeles that year.
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Nancy Kerrigan's shattered knee, O.J. Simpson's infamous white Bronco, and JonBenét Ramsey's macabre glamor shots plastered tabloid covers for much of the decade and continue to darkly fascinate through modern retellings.
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If you've ever felt nostalgic for your middle school girl squad, Shatterbox Anthology's latest feature, Pinky, is the darkly powerful portrait of those tricky middle school years you've been waiting for.
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Directed by Matt Spicer and co-starring Elizabeth Olsen, Ingrid Goes West is a darkly brilliant takedown of the social media world — and the maddeningly impossible #goals it inspires in us.
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Over the course of its sophomore season, UnReal — the award-winning, darkly satirical Lifetime series that explores the cutthroat underbelly of a reality dating show — has added race to its purview.
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More broadly, and more darkly, White tells PEOPLE the series is about a network of child sexual abuse survivors and "this really horrific web" of adults who abused them in Baltimore.
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Ryder and Reeves, who have starred together twice before, in 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula and 2006's A Scanner Darkly, are Hollywood weirdos, and watching them interact is a delight.
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We can only hope this comes to a satisfying conclusion before Big Little Lies returns, because there's for sure not room in my brain for two tense and darkly intertwined murders.
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With darkly lit rooms, loud music, and images and videos of women luxuriating in the half-nude, Victoria's Secret provides an alternative experience that some Chinese women may find more modern.
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In this darkly funny book, Dino gets one more chance to resolve his friendship with his estranged best friend July — when she awakens on the table in Dino's parents' funeral home.
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In addition to the aforementioned Elsewhere solo gig, Fortune effectively replaced Wax Idols at Basilica SoundScape, a darkly hued arts festival in Hudson, NY co-produced by her manager Brandon Stosuy.
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Pipedream's extensive offerings include the sort of cheap, crass products more readily associated with darkly-lit porn stores than high-end sex boutiques: blow-up dolls and huge, hyper-realistic dildos.
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Seeing the all-powerful, amoral (he had many illegitimate children) superman at the mercy of unsophisticated doctors and the forces of disease and death far beyond his comprehension is darkly funny.
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Evangelical fans watch as the company's darkly-clad boss—first Steve Jobs, now Tim Cook—presents shiny new iSomethings in front of a screen showing colourful slides reminiscent of stained glass.
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It's furious, it's moving, it's darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut, the writing is effortlessly wonderful, and every one of the wide variety of voices rings utterly true.
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But it was Gus Van Sant's darkly satirical "To Die For" (1995) and then his brother and Mr. Damon's "Good Will Hunting" two years later that put him on the map.
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Shubaly's songs are darkly comic, but darker still is the recent work of Richard Gadd, whose comedy show has probably won more major awards than any other over the last year.
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There are dunked basketballs, exploding bombs, flourishing labs and cities — all designed to show Kim what's possible if he engages with the West, and to warn him darkly of the alternative.
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Instead, the tone and loose narrative draw on the druggy paranoia of A Scanner Darkly, the fragility of what it means to be human in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Ford warned darkly of "ugly passions" that might be unleashed if a former president were made a criminal defendant, while supporters suggested that the nation would be traumatized by a trial.
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Deepening that lore is Tarantino's all-out commitment to darkly absurdist comedy that's present in the trailer, the kind that might not fully come together until we see the whole movie.
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Meanwhile, insurance and pharmaceutical companies — likely joined by doctors and hospitals — will be bombarding the airwaves with ads warning darkly of systemic degradation in the quality of the health care system.
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It remains an expression of our most public and darkly private ideas of what it means to be a citizen, an American, a foreigner, a family, a neighbor or a stranger.
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There's a thread between the English duo's hearfelt, yet often darkly soaring songs and Willows' own originals—which can be sampled with the premiere of his debut EP, Keep Counting, below.
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When Bertolucci's influence is discussed today, the political aspects of his storytelling — his leftist ideals and darkly cynical look at social systems and institutions — are frequently left out of the equation.
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The Apocalypse Burger is one of Mr. Myint's many memorable, darkly funny creations, and a look at how a chef's politics might shape the food on his plate in unexpected ways.
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With a libretto and stage direction by Joël Pommerat, this adaptation of Carlo Collodi's tale of a marionette's path to truth and redemption is a darkly entertaining piece of music theater.
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On a recent visit to London I took in the company's revival of a darkly powerful David Alden production of "Lucia di Lammermoor," presented in an English translation by Amanda Holden.
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In one of Lopez's signature pivots, the arch banter transitions to something darkly moving: what Leo wants is not to turn a trick but to take a shower and do laundry.
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Jackson recalled the power of King's darkly prescient "I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech," the sound of the gunshot and the wound that always reopens when he travels back to Memphis.
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Whenever "Twin Peaks" gets this metaphysical, it may be best to read it as Frost and Lynch generating darkly poetic visual metaphors to describe a universe abandoned by the benevolent gods.
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LOS ANGELES — Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter who profoundly influenced multiple generations with his cerebral and darkly meditative songs, has died, his record label confirmed on his Facebook page Thursday night.
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"Kind of like a dirty old Prius parked outside Barneys" is how one character describes another in this darkly comic meditation on the fissures underneath seemingly idyllic lives in Monterey, Calif.
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And Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo won the best screenplay award for "Bad Tales," a darkly tinged examination of one summer in the lives of several families in a small Italian town.
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The device of the omniscient fetus is one that McEwan takes up with a comic flair more darkly mischievous than McEwan fans, accustomed to his usually melancholic-meditative tone, might expect.
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There is also Kevin Wilson's spiky, darkly funny "Nothing to See Here," a tale of old friends and 10-year-old twins who burst into flames when they're anxious or upset.
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This darkly funny and perceptive memoir follows Wiener's time working for start-ups in New York and San Francisco, arriving in the latter as the tech industry was reshaping the city.
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The cells on the spreadsheet began to fill with names and more names, some highlighted darkly in red to highlight men who had been accused by multiple women of sexual assault.
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It's grandiose, heartbreaking, darkly beautiful, and perfect for Olsen's voice—which reminds you that no matter how you dress up an Angel Olsen track, the focus will always be on her.
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Seven years after its first publication, Gone Girl's analysis of the power dynamics of gender and marriage is just as scathing and ferocious as ever — and it's also weirdly, darkly romantic.
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JS: One of the compelling things about Linklater's A Scanner Darkly is that he found in animation a kind of analogue to the trippy, hallucinatory experience of Philip K Dick's writing.
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Some of the songs deal with very specific questions about what, indeed, is going on, but almost always with an eye on a bigger, historical picture, with a darkly spiritual tinge.
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Lam's denaturalizing weaponization takes something of a mystical lunge with the sacrificial "Belial empereur des mouches" ("Belial, Emperor of the Flies," 83) and the darkly crucifix-like "Les Noces" ("The Nuptials," 1947).
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If you already binged Russian Doll and can't wait for season 2 of The End of the Fucking World, don't worry: Netflix has your next darkly hilarious series coming down the pipeline.
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Ultimately, Romero used the Living Dead films to showcase his brilliance as a genre auteur, while darkly skewering the blind corporatism that was so indifferent to society (and his films) at large.
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Welcome to Tranquility- Gail Simone's story of a retirement community for superheroes and villains is a darkly funny parable about how you get on after you've put your life's work behind you.
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The duo, which has released two albums and is currently working on a third, travels across the country performing skits and songs that pirouette between the gleefully goofy and the darkly tragic.
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It is a portrait of two lonely men locked in a world of delusion and codependence, offering a darkly comic vision of how white, aged-out failures shape our modern political moment.
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Colombie's new single, with the help of Noah Breakfast (Wet, Tunji Ige, Christine and the Queens), blends body-quaking beats in surprising configurations, trap inflections, and darkly melancholic R&B-angled vocals.
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The Saudis still speak darkly of the 1980s when as OPEC's "swing producer" they curtailed production to prop up prices but ended up badly burned when other producers did not go along.
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Each episode is a short story performed by actors, a la an old-school radio serial, and most of the episodes have a weird, darkly comic "Twilight Zone"-esque twist to them.
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I've always struggled with that criticism, because I've always found the show, at the very least, mordantly funny, blessed with a darkly humorous streak that made its more despairing portions slide by.
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They're like the dark inverse of the pink pussy hat worn at the Women's March: Instead of shouting out women's power, Handmaid outfits whisper darkly of the looming horror of women's oppression.
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The director says it was a treat to work with the two stars, who also share credits on 2006's A Scanner Darkly and 2009's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
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During the talk, Sanborn referred to a term from his essay, ikonocracy, "to rule by the image," which resonates deeply, and darkly, with the current moment, as flash all but vanquishes substance.
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Covenant leans into its predecessor's most alienating aspects – its philosophizing, its contempt for humanity – and delivers a darkly compelling rumination on creation, destruction, the purpose of life, and the value of humankind.
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From Japanese classical Edo paintings, to the darkly whimsical contemporary works of Yohsitomo Nara, to Frank Benson's 3d-printed sculpture of Juliana Huxtable, Murakami's artistic passions demonstrate his amazing range of interests.
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The previous afternoon, McCrossin had made a brief appearance in a tuxedo-themed Morphsuit—a darkly humorous reference to Sandeson's claim that two men in Morphsuits had been responsible for Samson's death.
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They've heard the tapes, too, and they're not thrilled that an outsider is about to learn all their deepest secrets — especially, they mutter darkly, an outsider that Hannah considered to be innocent.
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Martin Scorsese directs this darkly funny bio-pic about Wall Street stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leo!), who masterminded corrupt and fraudulent activities at his own Stratton Oakmont brokerage firm during the early 1990s.
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"Dry Powder", a darkly amusing new work from Sarah Burgess, directed for the Public Theatre by Thomas Kail (who also directed "Hamilton", a popular musical), considers the cunning machinations of the 1%.
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After winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May, the darkly funny "Parasite" has won over general audiences, too, and is on track for a worldwide total of more than $100 million.
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With the Giants leading by 248 points, a black cat trotted from a MetLife Stadium tunnel, dashed up the sideline and darkly stared down the Cowboys' bench from a few yards away.
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In one lengthy response sent in 1832, James Kent, a New York jurist, recalled an evening he spent at the Grange in April 1804 during which Hamilton darkly surveyed the political scene.
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That's what distinguishes "Billions" from HBO's "Succession," another darkly funny series about Manhattan élites, but one with a more subversive theme: its characters are fools, entitled dummies deluded about their own potential.
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She's also here to help, with nearly 140 pages of sharply argued, knottily intelligent, darkly funny cultural criticism and, if that doesn't work, the blunter instrument of a nine-point diagnostic test.
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It really makes it more complex 'cause you have, like, places where it's really well lit and then where it's half lit and then where it's sort of like very darkly lit.
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He shot his images, without figures, from deep in the woods and marshlands, close up near houses and through the opening in the brush to the lake, then printed them very darkly.
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This leap into the (relative) void is darkly suggestive of suicide, an idea that is soon swamped by chatter and bustle as Woody heads off to find Forky and bring him back.
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A room filled with portraits of children dressed as royalty or clergy, which also includes a darkly comical child-size suit of armor, is funny and nostalgic, but its significance stops there.
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" In contrast, Cel is a demurely acerbic young woman who speaks in a darkly comic voice about the day-to-day taping of a daytime squawk-fest: "The guest list is mediocre.
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The "Götterdämmerung" is electric; the "Die Walküre," which I heard live in 2011, is bathed in tragedy, rather than fired by ardor; the "Das Rheingold," released this month, is careful, darkly intense.
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A lot has changed since 2005 when the darkly comic series debuted, but while the narcissistic, amoral characters have remained mostly the same, the performers behind them have evolved alongside the culture.
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I'd never given much thought to pickled broccoli stems before, but now I think their highest use is with darkly lush sheets of raw beef furred over with fine white horseradish gratings.
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The villain, a pedantic town clerk, has characteristics that evoke certain anti-Semitic stereotypes; at the end of the opera, Hans Sachs darkly warns Nuremberg about external threats to its unpolluted culture.
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And he has forged one of the most cynical and darkly productive alliances of all time with the poker-faced Mitch McConnell, sending his personal approval rating to an all-time high.
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It's exceedingly well executed and technically impeccable, with precisely shot (by Edward Lachman), near-abstract, dehumanized cityscapes washed in gray set against darkly shaded country landscapes that seem permanently untouched by sun.
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The introduction to the interview with Trump contained in that 1990 Playboy issue begins with an opening line that's darkly funny given his middle-of-the-night sex tape tweet about Machado.
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There is wonderfully chewy rugbrod at Great Northern Food Hall in Grand Central Terminal, spice-scented Swedish limpa at Plaj in San Francisco, and darkly rugged toast at Bachelor Farmer in Minneapolis.
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There is a spacious ground floor and a mezzanine, with the main floor darkly decorated with black tiles underfoot, black painted wood trim and charcoal gray fabric; the upstairs has exposed brick.
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In other words, it's a Coen brothers movie, and one that, thanks to its fine darkly comic timing and steady directorial hand, could net them another Oscar nomination for writing or directing.
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The chilly and ominous film does little to make its girls act like actual teenagers—but watching them carefully engineer a homicide without chipping their manicures is still darkly and deliriously enjoyable.
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From the late 60s to the early 00s, Rollin made macabre movies centered on darkly powerful women, transgressive in their sexual freedom and monstrous beauty, choosing subversion and danger over mundane domesticity.
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The video splits between the darkly elegant prototype, splashed with generous doses of dramatic fog, and more casual shots of a test room with a slightly different version that demonstrates the drone's capabilities.
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President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner Is this Matt Novak story (a) darkly hilarious, (b) a terrible portent of things to come, or © both?
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The darkly tropical "Somerton Beach" (below) a beguilingly creepy Christmas cover of "Walking in the Air" and singles "Night on Earth" and "Little Boring Thing," themselves tales of fractured love and deep longing.
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I'd venture that many people will be entering this season with a similar ignorance, and that makes this season darkly exciting to watch, and has inspired me to do a lot of homework.
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Starring fellow downtown New York artists and musicians like Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, and Kembra Pfahler, Kern's Super-8 short films were lo-fi, subversively punk, and darkly comic.
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One of the most exciting fiction debuts of the year is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black, a darkly satirical short story collection that plays on our ideas about race, capitalism, and dystopia.
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White supremacists and their sympathizers were, for a time, a significant enough constituency that Idaho's Republican politicians courted them during campaign seasons by expounding on Ruby Ridge and muttering darkly about black helicopters.
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"Suddenly, a Knock at the Door," at Theater for the New City, is based on a collection of stories by the Polish-Israeli writer Etgar Keret, a proponent of darkly whimsical magical realism.
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Even more darkly, if that's possible, I was reminded of the real-life story of Ed Buck, a white Democratic donor with an alleged fetish for drug-fuelled sex with vulnerable younger partners.
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So, you just binged through Netflix's darkly quirky take on superheroes, Umbrella Academy season 6, and you're wondering if you'll ever get to find out what happens after that wild, world-ending finale?
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The Russians have denied any role, suggesting darkly that some other group may have poisoned the Skripals — an absurd claim given how difficult and dangerous it is to make, store and use Novichok.
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MARCH 21 Fans of darkly comic crime pictures like "Fargo" and "A Simple Favor" should enjoy "Blow the Man Down," a twisty thriller featuring a fine cast and a memorable coastal Maine location.
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They upended ideas of safety, security, and innocence, and effectively sounded the death knell of '60s counterculture, ushering in a new decade of darkly psychosexual, conspiracy-laced cultural exploration of America's seedy underbelly.
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The relationship between thought experiment, publishing, and policy forms a darkly efficient little ecosystem: For every human rights abuse enacted into law, there's a new novel to paint us a potential fresh hell.
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In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York's radical free-jazz scene, he recorded "Valley of Search," a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions.
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Björk's darkly formidable 2015 album, "Vulnicura," reflected the breakup of her decade-long relationship with the artist Matthew Barney in songs of nearly paralyzing pain and simmering anger, weighted with dissonant, dramatic strings.
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Goreyland favors Victorian and Edwardian settings and costumes, is darkly comic to the point of absurdism and is hard to categorize except with hyphenated terms like camp-macabre, ironic-gothic or dark-whimsy.
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The Sorensen precedes Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, which starts in D minor and ends in D major — the key, albeit more darkly cast, of the evening's main piece, Brahms's Symphony No. 2.
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For the most part, however, they are merely the sideline interpreters of political and social events—and even then, they often see the world through a glass, tinted darkly by ideology or tendentiousness.
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It's a little darkly comic, like the "Pine Barrens" escapade from "The Sopranos," but it's also sad: We see just enough of the spark in these young men to mourn it in advance.
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There's no reckoning coming, but there is something perversely satisfying and darkly apropos about seeing where all those McKinsey-scented insights and learnings (to use another corporate consultancy term of art) wound up.
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Treating evil as a chronic, if sometimes dormant infection, Skiles, who grew up in the Bible Belt, presents a darkly humorous view of the pornographic impulses buried beneath his movie's conservative-values façade.
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More from Tonic: In a way that now feels very darkly ironic, I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain, and publicly acknowledging my demons felt like a fast track to losing that dream forever.
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They borrowed without hesitation from vernacular, culturally specific aesthetics: from Nuyorican girls with darkly stained lips and heavy gold nameplates; and from ultra-sexualized bimbos who wore their hair in massive platinum bouffants.
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In the thinking of the Vatican, the manipulation of vulnerable individuals for the sex trade is the epitome of a darkly materialistic age, when everything can be monetised and intangible values are cast aside.
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Reilly's latest project sees him star alongside Joaquin Phoenix in The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comedic Western based on Patrick deWitt's 2011 novel of the same name and helmed by French director Jacques Audiard.
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The hand-to-hand combat is certainly bracing -- and at times darkly funny -- in the early going, but then the guns start blazing, in a way that grows repetitive to the point of numbing.
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It's as emotionally grueling as just about any cinematic depiction of a troubled relationship I've ever seen, and darkly honest about the ways ambition can bring couples together as well as drive them apart.
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While Reznor has collaborated over the years with legends like Adrian Belew, Dr. Dre, and Adrian Sherwood, the project has largely served his singular vision, one that is both darkly intimate and fundamentally apocalyptic.
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The first article I wrote for Waypoint, back when it was called VICE Gaming, was little more than an excuse to talk about The Fall, a thrilling (but darkly disturbing) story about artificial intelligence.
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It's all very on-brand for Ryder and Reeves, who've previously starred together in Francis Ford Coppola's Bran Stoker's Dracula, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, and Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
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This last year and change especially has been shot through with intimations of collision and collapse, and the last few months have been defined by the horrific and darkly hilarious passive performance of it.
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With temperature records tumbling daily in last week's European heatwave, a crowd in an east London bar seemed uniquely primed to appreciate his darkly humorous riffs on the existential threat posed by climate change.
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Despite the darkly comedic tone, there's also a fair amount of violence, much of it perpetrated by the aforementioned assassin Bart (Fiona Dourif), whose exploits are witnessed by Ken (Mpho Koaho), a terrified hacker.
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The show looks just as melancholy and darkly funny as ever, and it seems like things still aren't going great for Donald Glover's character, who appears to be living out of a storage unit.
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Instead of a single person, it commissioned two artists with very different styles: Australian artist Andrew Archer illustrated A Scanner Darkly, while UK-based artist Chris Skinner tackled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is in charge of keeping us safe from our own belongings, and its Twitter account often posts darkly funny warnings about common hazards, particularly around the holidays.
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Grounded in part in Philip K. Dick's hallucinatory novel A Scanner Darkly, it is a grim depiction of addiction, loss, and post-millennial decline told through their unique take on electronic music's darkest strains.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Nearly ninety years ago, economist John Maynard Keynes warned darkly about widespread "technological unemployment" – a condition which would replace human workers faster than it could find new uses for them.
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Tay circled the face of Wahlberg and the prisoner and responded using slang for imagining two people in a romantic relationship: "IMMA BE SHIPPING U ALL FROM NOW ON." It's horrible and darkly funny.
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Director of photography Jeff Cutter's intimate camerawork, often relying on darkly expressive close-ups before expansively capitalizing on later plot developments, ably establishes the film's unsettling tone, underpinned by Bear McCreary's brooding orchestral score.
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The lyrics Summer sings ("And if a double-decker bus / crashes into us / to die by your side / is such a heavenly way to die") epitomize the darkly romantic sensibilities of a Smiths fan.
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First, in the immediate aftermath of Trump's victory, the establishment and its allies in the mainstream media began talking darkly about possible "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to defeat Clinton.
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The relevant book about Trump's American forebear is Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel—Melville's last—that could just as well have been called The Art of the Scam.
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It was screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, drawing often rapturous response from critics who praised its darkly comic moments, outrageous plot twists and evocative period atmosphere.
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In 2014, Mr. Akinmusire released a more chilling and expansive follow-up, "Roll Call for Those Absent," consisting of the names of casualties sounded out by a child, over a darkly unsettled synthesizer hum.
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But of all the revelations that follow, as the sisters prepare to dismantle the only life they've known, the most darkly gratifying concerns the terrible strength that lies at the heart of Lia's weakness.
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Zig-zagging between crunchy pop-rock, smooth and darkly shaded electro, low-slung hip-hop beats, and (most recently) PC Music's glitched-out meta-mayhem, the UK pop troublemaker's brand has undoubtedly been chaos.
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So did the surprise slipped in at Yohji Yamamoto, amid the darkly lyrical drapery and paint-splashed wraps: padded hands emerging out of the blackness, middle finger extended, ever so elegantly, at the world.
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Mr. Dundas made a name for himself turning out darkly sexy 1970s-inflected fare at Emilio Pucci and Roberto Cavalli, the kind of stuff you'd expect to see on Anita Pallenberg in her heyday.
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The relevant book about Trump's American forebear is Herman Melville's 'The Confidence-Man,' the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel—Melville's last—that could just as well have been called 'The Art of the Scam.
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It snatched for resolution in the first movement and remained darkly angry in the last, struggling to dredge up the optimism needed for the grand ending to sound as truly triumphant as it might.
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It was an absolute success on his part if you look at it from a rising perspective; a gaze through the glass darkly of where we are heading rather than where we have been.
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While working to keep Iran from going nuclear, the intelligence officer John Tavner (Michael Dorman) assumes a risky "nonofficial cover" as a midlevel employee at a Milwaukee pipe company in this darkly comic thriller.
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"The Podcast for Laundry," a darkly funny spoof of niche podcasting that doubles as a cracked portrait of a damaged, delusional misanthrope, is a tighter, more distilled example of Mr. Davis's peculiarly assaultive comedy.
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The darkly funny part is how such an offering can even be pitched as radical, because we have become so conditioned to expect—nay, demand—a chance to rebuy games we've already paid for.
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This weekend, the New York Philharmonic, led by its music director, Jaap van Zweden, presents a double-bill of the darkly radical works, in a new production designed by the Swedish director Bengt Gomer.
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But despite its edgier trappings — a darkly minimal set, stylish modern costumes — it, too, is highly faithful to the text, which is performed in a modern, rhyming translation by Jürgen Gosch and Wolfgang Wiens.
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Wars are raging in Syria, in Yemen, in Libya, in Egypt, and the potential for a mind-boggling array of other wars -- small, medium and large, regional and global, looms darkly on the horizon.
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"There are a lot of people who think the whole purpose of all this turmoil is to create martial law," Hal Wick, a delegate from South Dakota, told me, musing darkly on the shootings.
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Some slices were edged with a lip of warm fat, others emphasized the darkly caramelized crust, and the rest laid open the tender, rosy flesh inside ($533 an ounce, starting at about 25 ounces).
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Cabaret's darkly tragicomic emcee reflected the depravity of Nazi Germany, while the Joker gleefully celebrated the anarchy of Gotham while never letting us forget that the sources of that anarchy were all too human.
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Sexy and darkly funny, A Bigger Splash stars Tilda Swinton as a rock star recovering from losing her voice by soaking up the sun on a Sicilian island with her younger boyfriend (Matthias Schoenaerts).
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The cast, ably headed by Charles Dance in fine form, is clearly enjoying the opportunity to throw darkly ambiguous are-you-the-killer-or-am-I-the-killer glares around the room whenever possible.
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Suarez Family Brewery's sun-soaked taproom, about 12 miles south of Hudson, N.Y., has a tap list that tilts toward unfiltered lagers, like the darkly roasty Bone Shirt and the hop-forward Qualify Pils.
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