Once the mochi cooled, its texture shifted from gummy to addictively chewy.
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"Love Poems," Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni's poetry is deceptively simple and addictively romantic.
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The story, with all of its twists and turns and depth, is addictively enticing.
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I can tell you this much: The Touch Bar is addictively enjoyable to use.
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Pinchworm sounds simple, but its the mapping of the controls to your mind that makes it addictively challenging.
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It's an addictively simple little game that's meant to give you a fun new way to find potential matches.
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It is beautiful, it is addictively joyful, and it feels like coming home again after a very long day.
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"Bohemian Rhapsody" is scared of tapping into the imagination that made the band so innovative and powerfully, addictively strange.
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Yep, we're pretty sure these brave teens are basically fearless in pursuit of all things fun, whacky, and addictively watchable.
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Lethal White, the latest of the detective novels J.K. Rowling publishes under the pen name Robert Galbraith, is addictively immersive.
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The result is an addictively clickable app that the authors hope will help car buyers make their next car purchase.
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It was a time when a certain purer kind of internet humor could survive: impossibly wholesome, addictively repetitive, and completely inscrutable.
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Zimmer earned her first Emmy nomination starring as cutthroat TV producer Quinn King on Lifetime's addictively soapy, pitch-dark Bachelor satire.
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She addictively flipsthrough old photo albums, straining to find a spark of familiarity in pictures of the little girl sheonce knew.
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Helping out Weger with her addictively off-kilter vision is pastry chef Sasha Piligian, because what is brunch without something sweet?
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Scouring the wax away, while addictively enjoyable, can damage the fragile bones of the inner-ear, rupture eardrums, and invite ear infections.
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What's really so hypnotically and addictively compelling about the Model 3 is how many great ideas have been crammed into one automobile.
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Bennet Has Her Say" (2015), which The Chicago Tribune called "a brilliant, hilarious, addictively readable reimagining of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.
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The special mac sauce adds an addictively creamy tang, while the layers of dry bun and middling beef respectfully do their jobs.
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Gemini can prove to be a little bit vapid plot-wise, but the casting of Kirke and Kravitz makes the film addictively watchable.
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A privileged teenager named Cadence, who spends summers on an island owned by generations of her mother's family, narrates an addictively enigmatic story.
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"What's really so hypnotically and addictively compelling about the Model 3 is how many great ideas have been crammed into one automobile," I said.
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There aren't any crazy set pieces or wild action sequences, but "Shtisel" is addictively, almost obsessively intimate, and it treasures its characters' smallest behaviors.
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The collected works read like a looking-glass version of "Doonesbury," the same cultural and political inputs producing something wildly random and addictively funny.
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"Survivor" was addictively entertaining, and audiences loved-to-hate the wryly devious Richard the way they did Tony Soprano and, before him, J.R. Ewing.
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Having binged the whole thing in a couple of days—it is addictively salacious—I think Netflix should have drilled home that point harder.
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The next thing you know, you'll be pulling this addictively pudding-like chocolate pie out of the fridge just in time for a sugary nightcap.
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Fellowes' visually splendid, addictively melodramatic series became a sensation when it debuted on ITV in 2010 and then on PBS in the US in 2011.
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Addictively quotable, great when writing about the art he loves (and he loves a great deal), he is also challenging when discussing the art he hates.
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Beck Dorey-Stein's addictively readable memoir, "From the Corner of the Oval," carries the reader on a ride that is improbable even by White House standards.
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New wave synths provide a colorful rush to the duo's sound, while vocalist Kara pirouettes through hooks that are alternatingly addictively syncopated chants or grand shout-alongs.
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The addictively good diced rabbit meat, coated with black-bean sauce, puts plenty of small bones in a diner's way, but the dish is well worth the effort.
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They claimed that the addictively sweet stuff of our childhood waffles shouldn't be sold in imitation maple-syrup jugs and labeled "natural" because it just isn't the real thing.
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A divided nation that usually shrugs at politics — and always shrugs at midterm elections — is suddenly united, passionately and addictively, in binge-watching the Greatest Show in American Politics.
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The motor is addictively powerful and the chassis is well-suited to handle it, with massive tires allowing you to brake later and get back on the gas sooner.
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Last year, the mantle was passed to "The Girl on the Train," by Paula Hawkins, an addictively paced suspense novel that has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide.
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With complementary woodsy and floral notes, the 001 scent is addictively good — and pretty too: the packaging design features the photographic work of the German botanical artist Karl Blossfeldt.
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In the last gasps of winter, addictively sour, salty lemongrass chicken sausage, laced with Treviso and white kimchi, was fresh proof of the power of hearty lettuces and preserves.
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Despite having 150 million daily active users who are addictively engaged with the app and a valuation of almost $20 billion, Snapchat faces fierce competition, especially from Facebook-owned Instagram.
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Jepsen's soaring new track "Cut to the Feeling" is addictively catchy, fueled by the kind of euphoria that comes with forgetting about how dumb the world can be and just letting loose.
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Afraid both of dying young and of growing old, Colvin addictively courts a chaos that the cinematographer, Robert Richardson, renders so vividly he seems keen to give us all a little of her PTSD.
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The coffee chain has seemingly dedicated this summer to rolling out addictively caffeinated drinks, but they've got a different (and much sweeter) motivation going on at the Bangsar Village II Starbucks in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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Photograph by Lauren Lancaster for The New Yorker Never mind: there are accara , small balls of deep-fried black-eyed-pea purée, slightly dry but addictively flavorful, especially when swiped through a sweet, jammy habanero paste.
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"If you had a color palette, you would end up with a phone that looked pleasant and was not addictively rewarding, that had some intentionality, but of course nobody wants you to do that," he said.
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Year: 1991, at the 63rd Academy AwardsWhat beat it: "Dances With Wolves"Another Scorsese masterpiece that is addictively rewatchable, and is arguably the best mafia movie ever made, lost to Kevin Costner hanging out with wolves.
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But this tragic end from the comics doesn't automatically mean she's fated to stay dead on the show, as the first season of Netflix's addictively weird and wild superhero show deviated a lot from the books upon which it was based.
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It's part of the text of Stranger Things, but also the metatext: threading elements from D&D into the show's narrative helped creators Matt and Ross Duffer create an addictively familiar world for fans of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and other 1143s icons.
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And while the first season was critically lauded for its addictively propulsive storytelling and the smart way it thought about the by turns intimate and vicious friendships of adolescence, it was also accused of dangerous storytelling for its decision to show Hannah's rape and her subsequent suicide in graphic detail.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Guardians of the Galaxy is so addictively fun because it introduced a new world of characters and civilizations, combined that world-building with a new, winsome team of characters — Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot — and threw away the self-serious nature of comic book movies.
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After weeks of being notified at work when Ella was crying or moving around (read: being a baby) and hours sunk addictively scrolling in fast-forward to see her move around in her sleep, it dawned on me that all this technology, which purportedly calms agitated parents, actually agitates them more.
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Behind every snack food franchise is a story — a young mother raised in the Amish church takes over a pretzel stand in the wake of devastating personal tragedy; a flat tire on a hot day forces a Greek immigrant ice cream man to serve a rapidly softening frozen product — that is eventually obscured by the unrelenting popularity of its low-cost, high-indulgence, addictively delicious treats.
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There is the mandarinquat, an offspring of the mandarin and kumquat, a faintly nipple-shaped, smooth-skinned blob that's at once terrifically juicy and eye-wateringly, addictively tart; the pink variegated lemon, a deceptively normal-looking citrus that, once sliced open, reveals a rosy center; the baby kiwi, shrunk to grape size and denuded of hair, perfect for popping, whole, into the mouth; and the purple-fleshed dragon fruit, its flavor indistinguishable from its more familiar white-fleshed cousin, and bred exclusively for its looks.
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Inserting a band into the video game was an utterly genius marketing tactic at the time: A vast majority of the band's fan base learned about the group through the game, and personally, the Pavlovian conditioning is burned into my brain so heavily that if I so much as think of the chorus from "Woman," I'm immediately transported back to my college apartment in San Francisco, drinking 40s and addictively hitting the colored buttons on those SG-shaped plastic guitars with my friends, trying to make the CG crowd on the screen cheer.
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Emily Mack from Music Feeds called the song a "“bonkers” half-schoolyard singalong, half-tribal dancefloor toe-tapper" Amnplify called the song a "festival favourite and dance floor anthem" Monique Hughes from Howl and Echoes described the song as "a big, kaleidoscopic, addictively-catchy party single".
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Sugar has an addictively electric personality that attracts people, especially Kim. It should also be stated that Kim's love for Sugar almost borders on obsession. Kim seems to be her only close friend and she rarely hangs out with any other girlfriends. She only has intermittent relationships with the men in her life.
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This song is just so eerie and addictively refreshing. Fast-paced and sharp, the stops and accents make this song a top- notch contender in music today. Guitar riffs snake seductively as vocal harmonies wash over the entire piece." The Deli describe it as a "surfy sonic fun with garagey and psych overtones [and] deliciously droney[,] with fast- paced and fleshed-out guitar parts backed by a tight rhythm section.
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Maloney is by-the-book and a little grey, and he finds working with Rose dangerous but addictively exciting. Additional cast members include Nisha Nayar, Susan Brown, Anne Reid and David Westhead. Guest stars throughout the series run include Tara Fitzgerald, Danny Dyer, Tiana Benjamin, Andrew-Lee Potts and Neil Dudgeon. Three series of the programme were broadcast, beginning with a two-part pilot episode on 29 September 2002.
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The Sunday Times called Schott's Almanac "a social barometer of genuine historical value"; The Boston Globe called it "One of the oddest and most addictively readable reference books in print". Schott introduced the 2006 Almanac with a quote from Ben Hecht: "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock".
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He claimed they all make use of a "shimmering simplicity and hypnotic circularity" formula, that becomes "stale" after a while. On a different note, Kayleigh Watson from Renowned for Sound described "Renaissance Girls" as a highlight, in addition to calling it an "addictively catchy number that calls to the modern, independent woman". Jennifer Joh from Neon Tommy also was positive towards the song, which she found to be "dazzling and exuberant", while James Christopher Monger of AllMusic called it "ultimately infectious".
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Michael Love Michael of Paper regarded the song as "a refreshing slice of smooth, radio-ready, but throwback '90s R&B;". He praised the song's "undercurrent of bittersweet melancholy characteristic of the genre's most forward-thinking productions", describing it as "an addictively rhythmic tune". MTV News' Ross McNeilage wrote: "The slick and sultry track is a nice extension from the sound of his debut album, and 6LACK and Ty Dolla $ign complement the song perfectly." Devin Ch of HotNewHipHop praised Khalid's songwriting talents, writing that "all performers adhere to the general 'vibe' of the song".
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Andrew Sacher and Wyatt Marshall of BrooklynVegan wrote that "the album falls somewhere between goth, noise, shoegaze and post-punk." They also described the album as "addictively melodic for such dark music." Noisey Vice stated that the song "Burial Society" had "a Nine Inch Nails-meets-post-punk vibe," which "evidenced Have a Nice Life's leanings on the sonic dark side in the record. Lars Gotrich of NPR described the track "Defenestration Song" as "the kind of pitch-black, post-punk party-rocker that'd really turn up at any Goth Night dance.
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Reviews for the novel have been generally positive. Gilbert Cruz of Entertainment Weekly gave the novel an "A" rating, commenting that the novel shared with great zombie stories the use of a central metaphor, describing it as "an addictively readable oral history." Steven H. Silver identified Brooks' international focus as the novel's greatest strength and commented favorably on Brooks' ability to create an appreciation for the work needed to combat a global zombie outbreak. Silver's only complaint was with "Good-Byes"—the final chapter—in which characters get a chance to give a final closing statement.
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" He also stated that "the song was about Big Brother watching you." Cheap Trick biographers Mike Hayes and Ken Sharp describe the song as "a magnificent tour-de-force, characterized by an addictively infectious chorus and jarring bursts of dissonance. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Dave Swanson similarly stated that "From the in-your-face power chord riff to Tom Petersson's surging bass lines, it is a tour de force. Swanson also points out that the strings play a similar role on "Dream Police" as the synthesizer did on Cheap Trick's earlier song "Surrender" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley.
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The show's first season received generally favorable reviews in the United States, scoring 66 out of 100 based on 25 critics on Metacritic. Robert Bianco of USA Today said, "... seen from a safe distance, captured by a sterling cast led in marvelous high style by Jeremy Irons, and presented with all the brio, flair and sumptuous design TV can muster, the infamous family is almost addictively entertaining". Linda Stasi of the New York Post gave the season a 3.5/4 rating, remarking "'The Borgias' (the series) makes The Tudors look like a bunch of amateurs with bigger lips." However, it was met with a more mixed reception in the United Kingdom.
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Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song a favorable review, saying that McEntire sang the song strongly, and by doing so, sounded "renewed, refreshed and ready to conquer the charts once again." Billboard also gave the song a positive review, with critic Deborah Evans Price saying McEntire delivers "the ultimate sassy anthem about a woman's resilience" and calling it a "delicious performance from one of country music's most gifted divas." Entertainment Weekly called the song the best on the album, by saying "Reba McEntire leads off her 31st album with 'Strange', an addictively sinister kiss-off that the next 12 tracks struggle to match".
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"Part 2" received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the episode received a 100% rating with an average score of 8.19 out of 10 based on 26 reviews. The critics' consensus reads, "'Part Two' delivers all the addictively, terrifyingly inscrutable storytelling that Twin Peaks fans and David Lynch devotees could hope for." Writing for IndieWire, Liz Shannon Miller gave the episode a B+, expressing disappointment at the "pretty staggering" violence against women in both this episode and Part 1, especially Darya's death, "an excruciatingly painful sequence"; but she praised the show as "fascinating in our current era of revivals, because it eschews all the conventions used by other series".
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So often does Quint order his thrashing, that Axminster has taken to having nude photographs shot of himself in order to prove later on how aggressive the cops were in their interrogations."A Lonely Way to Die" - Episode 5 The detective drinks coffee addictively. When one client asks him whether his habit keeps him up, Axminster responds, “No, but it helps.” He appears to be constantly in debt, and he’s not above borrowing money from friends and even from his bootblack, Lester (Timmie Rogers)."The November Plan, Part II" - Episode 2 Axminster “gripes in general about the cost of staying alive. ‘All the angels left this burg about 20 years ago,’ is his succinct summation of the 1930s ...”Wilkins, Barbara.
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" Robert Bianco of USA Today also lauded the series saying, "There's nothing in Downton you won't recognize, and almost nothing you won't enjoy." Varietys chief television critic Brian Lowry praised the series cast and said "Julian Fellowes has created such a vivid group of characters and assembled such an impeccable cast--effortlessly oscillating from comedy to drama--that the hours fly by, addictively pulling viewers from one into the next." Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter said, "The characters are so beautifully and thoroughly rendered that we, as viewers, are caught up in their lives." Robert Lioyd of the Los Angeles Times said, "It is big, beautiful, beautifully acted and romantic, its passions expressed with that particular British reserve that serves only to make them burn brighter.
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