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This comes from the same shared nightmare of the Sisterhood, replete with the terrifying black maw and blue machine lights.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
As art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Bob hitches a ride to New York in the rear of a station wagon, the driver unknown, the small talk between them nonexistent, and is dropped off at the open maw of a tunnel.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
Unbearably taut, the 40-second sequence of people shrieking in suffering as they're pulled into Jean Jacket's maw proves that gore-free horror is equally, if not more, scarring.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
As art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Bob hitches a ride to New York in the rear of a station wagon, the driver unknown, the small talk between them nonexistent, and is dropped off at the open maw of a tunnel.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
Unbearably taut, the 40-second sequence of people shrieking in suffering as they're pulled into Jean Jacket's maw proves that gore-free horror is equally, if not more, scarring.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maw. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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