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The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
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This fatuous facial gesture is immediately relatable but also, as Locke discusses below, one that can be read in a number of different ways.
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Redmayne brings a sweetly doltish everyman energy to this increasingly off-kilter affair, with much of the dialogue between him and his co-stars (including Stratton-Twine as the missing woman’s slacker brother) improvised in disarmingly shaggy fashion.
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Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown in a lab with the sole purpose of influencing the masses and selling products.
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Miller has always taken the American people for brainless, heartless chumps lost in a swamp of nostalgia who’ll believe whatever Trumpworld tells them to.
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Nina is introduced as the seemingly vacuous trophy wife of Nile, a man who secretly murdered his first wife — and Nina’s former boss — Madison (Leila George) in a fit of passion.
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Ample use of soft materials help with sound absorption in the vacuous space.
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After becoming the longest-serving ADA on the series, Barba resigned amidst his controversial decision to pull the plug on a brain-dead child.
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The patient was brain-dead, and the procedure, which was performed in China, was a trial, but the organs — from a pig genetically modified to improve compatibility with human immune systems — were not immediately rejected.
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And no, that was NOT OutKick or FOX who wrote that stupid headline.
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The thing about House of the Dragon is that everything really is quite stupid.
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That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.
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Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?
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The lesson was not that the models were unintelligent.
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More and more people are avoiding dating or befriending those with opposing political views, and growing numbers describe those on the other side as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent.
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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