archaic
: misery, affliction
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Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Glenn and his friends were asked to meet some girls, and the teens didn’t hesitate.
—Yolanda Harris, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026
And if your teen wants to see the movie?
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
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Derry Girls, which followed teens in McGee’s native Derry in the years preceding 1998’s Good Friday Agreement, was a raucous, joke-dense show that juxtaposed mundane adolescent rites of passage with the daily horrors of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Glenn and his friends were asked to meet some girls, and the teens didn’t hesitate.
—Yolanda Harris, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026
And if your teen wants to see the movie?
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teen. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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