as in song and dance
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Marking Domingo’s feature directing debut, the movie chronicles the fallout of the race-barrier breaking affair between the song and dance man and Kim Novak – played by Sydney Sweeney – in 1957.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025 -
There are grand old-fashioned song and dance spectacles but also solo numbers that do fine without any extravagance.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2025
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The nation needed somebody who could pull the strings, massage egos, calm Congress, walk through the land mines of fickle public opinion, issue legalese when needed, and hold forth in public messages of near biblical elevations when that was needed in its turn.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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This comedy/romance/drama follows the true story of Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning performance), a struggling single mother who, despite knowing little about legalese, fronts a lawsuit that would become groundbreaking on the environmental front.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2022
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The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2021
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.—
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
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The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.—
Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2020
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