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Booker is a plug-and-play starter, possessing a mean streak and physical demeanor that would pay dividends in keeping Stroud upright and paving the way in the running game.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Still, there’s a daringly mean streak running through this show that sets it apart from other reimaginings of its kind.
—Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Elsa’s mean streak, while amusing and borderline cool — there is something charming about a difficult girl’s reign of terror — is also concerning.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
The one saving grace of this mercenary gorefest is its pronounced mean streak; not even adorable moppets are safe from the movie’s nasty, messy, indiscriminate bloodlust, which makes the inexplicable decision to release the movie on Christmas Day even funnier.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
Dot’s on the run from Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), a county sheriff with a mean streak.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
One, that Stewart’s very un-Hollywood lack of a mean streak is nonetheless hard-won, the result of a long, painful process of forgiving both himself and his father—in other words, of dealing with his own daddy issues.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
As a boy, Larry McMurtry rode Polecat, a Shetland pony with a mean streak and a habit of dragging him through mesquite thickets.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Still, there’s a daringly mean streak running through this show that sets it apart from other reimaginings of its kind.
—Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Elsa’s mean streak, while amusing and borderline cool — there is something charming about a difficult girl’s reign of terror — is also concerning.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
The one saving grace of this mercenary gorefest is its pronounced mean streak; not even adorable moppets are safe from the movie’s nasty, messy, indiscriminate bloodlust, which makes the inexplicable decision to release the movie on Christmas Day even funnier.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
Dot’s on the run from Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), a county sheriff with a mean streak.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
One, that Stewart’s very un-Hollywood lack of a mean streak is nonetheless hard-won, the result of a long, painful process of forgiving both himself and his father—in other words, of dealing with his own daddy issues.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
As a boy, Larry McMurtry rode Polecat, a Shetland pony with a mean streak and a habit of dragging him through mesquite thickets.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Mean streak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mean%20streak. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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