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Adjective
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Though the two had great respect for each other's writing, their styles remained distinct, Fletcher in the spare style of the poet, Simon in her painstaking, conscientious prose.—
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25 Jan. 2025 -
He is known as an elite locker-room presence but has never been a particularly conscientious defender.—
Sam Vecenie,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The tone of the series is, more than anything else, comforting, at a time when trans people and their allies could certainly use some moral affirmation—not to mention emotional validation.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the weeks before the election, former President Barack Obama gave moral sermons and philosophical treatises on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign, his speeches suggesting that politics still existed in a social atmosphere of contemplation and debate.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Their legacy and honorable service to our Nation will forever remain.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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This only further confirmed to me that Justin and Wayfarer are exceedingly honorable and highly ethical.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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With risks, investments, and ethical considerations to weigh, the right questions can determine the success of AI initiatives.—
Julie Petit,
WWD,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Aritzia Cashmere Hood is made from jersey-knit, 100 percent Grade A cashmere verified for ethical sustainability by The Good Cashmere Standard.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The parallels here are unsubtle, but Falconer’s delicate and impressively assured direction smoothes them into something honest, so that even the moments that might seem obvious to us roil with self-revelation.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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Romano regularly struggled and had an honest talk with instructors during one of her private sessions with them.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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Functional character, product engineering, extreme study of spaces, scrupulous search for a unique design that finds in detail an extreme elegance combined with highly performing technological elements, are the thread of this innovative project.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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In leaving much of his story up to intuition — and taking a climactic turn toward the surreal — Chowdhury crafts a scrupulous slow-burn drama about a kind of obsession that, despite being opaque, comes off as entirely tragic.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The spotlight has shown light on the big, bad wolves on the other end of those chats, yet the spotlight itself has perverted the process of real justice by making this a righteous spectacle.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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Psychological probing was never on the agenda: The slick, righteous pull of the episodes stands in stark contrast to remarkable, untelevised raw footage that Osit has uncovered of police rather more temperately interrogating the show’s targets after the initial capture.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Boston: Image Image When much of downtown Boston burned a year after Chicago, property owners upgraded in a kind of virtuous cycle, erecting sounder and taller buildings and incentivizing their neighbors to do the same.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other countries will be forced to follow suit and hence create a price action virtuous cycle.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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