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Adjective
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Stunning sunset views, wild horses galloping through the salty spray, and majestic sand dunes rising into the clear blue sky—every scene is more spectacular than the last.—
Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
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The 30-year-old defensive end has been solid, if not spectacular.—
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Left tackle is the Patriots’ most glaring area of weakness, and adding a player like Stanley would free up their options in the draft.—
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With five wins in the evening, the song is undoubtedly the most successful diss track in recent memory, making Drake’s absence at the show all the more glaring (and arguably understandable).—
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On The Undoing, the murder of a working-class mother whose child attends a fancy Upper East Side private school exposes the double life of a respected local physician.—
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All the more reason to schedule a fancy manicure/pedicure with glasses of chambers and strawberries on the sure.—
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Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.—
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But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.—
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Teens and tweens get their own snazzy club lounges (called Vibe for teens and Edge for tweens), and babysitting is available in a nursery for babies and toddlers ages 6 months to 3 years, for a fee.—
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Another adorable moment happened with Craig's son, who was dressed in a snazzy suit for the occasion.—
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The first film had charm and heart, while Daddy’s Home 2 is mostly a tacky, tasteless affair.—
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This production replaces the Orientalist extravaganza that Sonya Frisell directed in 1988 and that came to define the grand-opera experience — dazzling, uplifting, gloriously tacky — for two generations.—
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Image Those actions were, apparently, tawdry means to an end.—
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Managers leapt at the chance to democratize theater and shed the tawdrier aspects of its reputation, and pantomime was a great way to do so.—
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The pressure, the this, the that, bright lights, nothing.—
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In this case, bright, sensitive 10-year-old Chuang (Wang Shang) feels unwanted in multiple households.—
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“Glittery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glittery. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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