First up, while people are revelling following the verdict, the emotional intensity of reaction can be traced to a sense of loss.
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Callum Booth,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Mar. 2025
From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
The apocalypse doesn’t come roaring in with a bang.
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Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Stock futures were roaring into the green Wednesday after President Trump pulled back from threats to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell — the latest twist in a week of market-moving chaos.
As the camera panned to the right, a golden retriever was spotted sitting against the orange kennel wall alone, looking on as other dogs excitedly romped around.
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Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
Good enough to romp it in the Championship, not good enough to make the step up.
All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.
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Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
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