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The Substance’s conclusion is anything but elegiac, however.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
8 Jan. 2025 -
But as Tanaka’s melodramatic and elegiac film shows us, beauty often comes from the most unexpected places.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2024
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Still, the movie ends on a note of melancholy self-reckoning that lingers.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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Over Martin’s delicate playing, her aching rasp resonated to the rafters, a melancholy shudder that still sounded comforting.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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No one would expect such lamentable defending from a Premier League side.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
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Though the sitdown with the media was to preview Tuesday's Champions League showdown against Borussia Dortmund, Courtois was asked about lamentable scenes last month which caused the Madrid derby to be halted before play resumed after a long pause.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
21 Oct. 2024
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Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.—
Annabel Gutterman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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His is a kind of pathetic that inspires neither scorn nor pity, but a universal, sorrowful connection — his yearning for a different face is a consideration of what makes a human being legible and thus able to be understood, known, even loved.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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Predictably, the fruit began to bleed red juice into the snow, creating crimson red rings around the snowman's eyes, giving him a sorrowful look.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Their son Donny attended to all of the funeral arrangements with the help of his wife Jan, a nurse, and his daughters Andrea and Alicia.—
Phil Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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The funeral mass in Quincy’s Sacred Heart Church will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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James, with his doleful countenance, makes the adult Hal vaguely sympathetic.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Krauss’s ethereal voice is as haunting as ever on this mournful ballad, where doleful lyrics look back on a time marked by regret and deceit, and get elevated by the elegant interplay between Krauss’ voice and Jerry Douglas’s soul-piercing steel guitar.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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Breathless had started as a somewhat conventional project that Godard turned into an irreverent formal free-for-all; the noirish, plaintive Le petit soldat had enough genre elements to mistake it for something more traditional.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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People swarmed in every direction: babies, the elderly, plaintive children negotiating dog acquisitions with their parents.—
Chloe Malle,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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