The stakes were suddenly, bracingly raised; no one was safe.
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The chart is fictionalized, but may soon be bracingly real.
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And it does so in a heavy, bracingly vicious way.
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But sometimes context can make the hoary feel bracingly fresh.
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But this next subject would be bitingly, bracingly of the movement.
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It is very much a bracingly pessimistic story for our era.
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Mr. Zimmern is bracingly frank about where his marriage went wrong.
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In contrast, Jacqueline Woodson's earnest dialogue with Lena Waithe feels bracingly necessary.
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It's so bracingly imaginative and intelligent, it practically makes the synapses tingle.
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The Elote was bracingly powerful at 50.3 percent alcohol, rich and complex.
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If the first season doesn't entirely hang together, it's bracingly risk-taking.
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And the people crooning them into your earbuds feel bracingly, embraceably real.
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"Chaos Monkeys" aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds.
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It is small and sweet, bracingly so, with hints of butterscotch and caramel.
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He wrote a bracingly candid memoir that named names and spared no one.
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His frequent news conferences and interviews can be bracingly candid, uninhibited, even raw.
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On this front, Netflix's bracingly honest new comedy Lady Dynamite is a curious case.
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Clinton said in one of her debates with Mr. Sanders, a bracingly honest statement.
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It's bracingly obvious Payton has no platform, no specific passion other than his narcissism.
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This movie feels bracingly new and also like something that has been here forever.
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Hendricks offers a bracingly honest cross section of black life that leaves me wanting more.
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Heidecker and Turkington's dumb-guy kind of humor is grounded in bracingly realistic character work.
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Janu, who is wry and bracingly frank, had vowed never to date a police officer.
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His physicality, timing and dramatic projection are all different — brilliant, extraordinarily clear, but bracingly different.
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But with his new band, Purple Mountains, he returns clear-eyed, bracingly personal, and self-lacerating.
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An early morning jog through the mist on the beach can be a bracingly solitary experience.
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" Jesse, when you were the critic for New York magazine, you called it "nakedly, bracingly theatrical.
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On the palate it is bone-dry and invigorating, with a bracingly fresh underlying citrus flavor.
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Bracingly, the show reminds us that in 2002, a statue of Dreyfus was defaced in Paris.
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Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time.
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The artist spoke with me, bracingly and delightfully, for a column in this magazine, in 2002.
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Modi also addressed a series of widely publicized gang rapes by speaking in bracingly modern terms.
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The class emails that intersect her first-person narration are bracingly sarcastic and often inventively intimidating.
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But over time, the confidence that the younger, anxious Clark had to fake has become bracingly real.
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It doesn't tell, it shows, more bracingly than you'd think would be possible on a meteorological update.
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It's simultaneously a searing take on class politics, an anxiety-inducing thriller, and a bracingly dark comedy.
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For Borman, the intimate particulars of everyday life are what help the past come bracingly, stirringly alive.
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"I didn't come this far to sink so low," Corey Taylor sings over and over again, bracingly.
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The vinegary Lionel Shriver has a bracingly bleak, which is to say cleareyed, take on this era.
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Yet another newish work, the bracingly creepy family drama "Downstairs," starts rehearsals in October at Primary Stages.
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For much of the movie, we're being treated to two wildly profane, bracingly inventive performances in one.
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Life in the Yankee Stadium upper deck was bracingly Darwinian — flat beer, loose joints and anything goes.
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"Me" has expanded, inverted, politicized; at this moment in history, it is suddenly, bracingly synonymous with "we."
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Elizabeth Strout is a writer bracingly unafraid of silences, her vision of the world northern, Protestant and flinty.
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Her fifth, most recently released album, "Abyss," is more broadly realized, folding spectral noises into bracingly heavy squalls.
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But in this case, it has been bracingly — at times subzero — cold, especially compared with previous Winter Olympics.
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A.O. Scott called the film "a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date."
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It is bracingly tart until the earthy, savory flavors come into focus — a reversal of palate-cleansing acidity.
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That's a use of tradition that's bracingly modern, unlike the synthesizers that number among the production's cheesy elements.
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That's a use of tradition that's bracingly modern, unlike the synthesizers that number among the production's cheesy elements.
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In more serious moments, Gorbachev is possessed by a strange poeticism that is both proud and bracingly sentimental.
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The painting style can look loose to a fault, flabby, but it can also point, bracingly, toward de Kooning.
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Ariana Madix shared her bracingly honest history of emotional abuse and the body image issues that came from that.
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The other Williams plays on the menu were less rewarding, if certainly in some cases bracingly, even entrancingly bizarre.
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" According to Schjeldahl: "The artist spoke with me, bracingly and delightfully, for a column in this magazine, in 2002.
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Throughout, Sharma adheres unwaveringly to Raymond Carver's dictum of "no tricks," telling his stories with bracingly direct, unassuming language.
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We pored over a menu full of lists of ingredients separated by commas, followed by bracingly large dollar figures.
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When it sticks to those themes, "The Model American" is a strong new work, bracingly imagined and keenly playable.
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Middle age is a crossroads, and when the viewer meets the bracingly ordinary Gloria, she is searching for a path.
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"At the Existentialist Café" is a bracingly fresh look at once-antiquated ideas and the milieu in which they flourished.
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The visiting room itself was bracingly loud with the squeal of children, and the joyful, foreign sound of women's laughter.
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Over the course of the play, the lovers quarrel and reconcile — repeatedly — in ways that seem bracingly contemporary and realistic.
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More than anything, it's the bracingly different kind of campaign she's running that makes Warren seem like 22016 going on 22016.
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Subtle, and bracingly beautiful, it must have been done just before 1527, when Puligo died of the plague at age 35.
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I Am Not a Witch feels like a remarkable discovery: part comedy, part social critique, part tragedy, and all bracingly original.
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Landon's experience, bracingly modern in so many ways, is also a cautionary tale, as relevant today as it was in her lifetime.
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Written between late 2008 and 2010, Slight Exaggeration offers a bracingly proximate encounter with Zagajewski's thinking as he moves among various speculative preoccupations.
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Babe was a middle finger to the new digital media establishment, particularly publications slow to adapt to the bracingly honest approach defining the era.
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Last year, Jimmy Shive-Overly (Chris Geere) dealt with the death of his father, Ronny (David Schaal), in a way that was bracingly realistic.
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The discourse, achingly knowing and bracingly comical, will ring familiar to fans of Amazon's "Catastrophe" and its gloriously sniping Sharon Horgan, this series's creator.
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In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott called the film "a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled."
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Where the Yankees proved bracingly willing to sit veteran players, Alderson kept talking of cleaning out the attic before letting the young guys play.
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Pad cha, a stir-fry of mixed seafood with wild ginger, little eggplants and grapelike clusters of green peppercorns, was bracingly intense one night.
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That theme resurfaces throughout this comprehensive retrospective, whether it's in "Basic Instinct" (Saturday) or the bracingly classical World War II story "Black Book" (Friday).
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But many Alaskans also see their home state as a natural wonderland, where the expectation of bracingly pristine air is just as deeply ingrained.
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That morsel of historical arcana is the basis of "The Favourite," a wildly entertaining, bracingly cynical comedy of royal manners directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
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In an exclusive interview for this week's issue of PEOPLE, on stands Friday, both are bracingly upbeat — and these women really (really) like each other.
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The premise is set up very briskly (bracingly) in the first hour, which manages to make everyone seemed vaguely sympathetic – but, more importantly, vaguely suspect.
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While the first season felt as bracingly creative as a chilly Minnesota wind, creator Noah Hawley appears to be settling into a more workmanlike pattern.
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Moreover, the film does turn the mental-health stigma "on its head"—by presenting its neurologically atypical female lead as clever, dynamic, and bracingly real.
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Pepys's diary entries are bracingly frank, and so is this production, which trades the role of Pepys among several actors, the terrific Ms. Hopkins included.
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Wearing belted A-line dresses and red nail polish and matching lipstick, she bracingly described her romantic failures and her feeling of being desperately alone.
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Throughout, Chee endeavors to catch himself at a distance and reckon, ever humble and bracingly honest, with the slippery terrain of memory, identity and love.
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"Wolf Boys" offers a bracingly intimate glimpse of how this insurgency looks from the point of view of the young killers on the front lines.
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Here, too, is morkovcha, carrot strands turned bracingly sweet and sour, a gift from the Koryo Saram that is now a staple of Uzbek cuisine.
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But Canadians will tell you that these diminutive treats hold an expanse of flavor and textures: flaky pastry, caramelized crust and a bracingly sweet filling.
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Like just about everyone else, I find the city as bracingly energetic as it's always been and even more oppressively expensive than it used to be.
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He is bracingly frank and a compulsive shrugger, though they're working on the second part; he's not a finished product, and he doesn't pretend to be.
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She is bracingly honest to end this way: Understanding where the other side is coming from may be invaluable, but it is only a first step.
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With such a stellar cast in place — and such a bracingly humanist approach to the story of Eliza's transformation — it's a shame to see it go.
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Indeed, the couple seemed the inverse of the one on stage: mutually affirming and compassionate and bracingly preoccupied with matters beyond their own immediate well being.
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It's enough for those of us here who love his work, who find it funny and sexy and bracingly dark, to say: We miss Leonard Cohen.
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Critics Consensus: "'The Chambermaid' uses one woman's experiences to take audiences inside a life — and a culture — that's as bracingly unique as it is hauntingly relatable."
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Mr. Wheatley's "High-Rise" was a highlight of 2016, and again he shows that he's a technically virtuosic director whose humor has a bracingly nasty side.
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They've also upscaled Venice's indispensable cocktail, the spritz, here made with your choice of electric orange Aperol, ruby red Campari, or bracingly bitter artichoke-based Cynar.
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She turned in a bravura performance as the impulsive, sensuous, bracingly honest Boonyi (doubling as her daughter, India), her dancing as beautiful and idiomatic as her singing.
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An Israeli enjoying the chicken tagine, heavy on meaty green olives and bracingly bitter preserved lemon, dismissed the other Israeli-owned restaurants he'd tried in New York.
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Earl's apparent immortality and lack of curiosity about his gig feel bracingly promising, suggesting that the movie is shaping into a scathing, relevant portrait of American greed.
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The other, his bracingly stripped-down revival of "The Glass Menagerie," was a hard sell — coming too soon, it seemed, after John Tiffany's stunner of a production.
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Given the contradictions layered in her work and her character, it's not surprising to learn that, as Chast admits bracingly, the magazine was not her first choice.
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What luck, too, for audiences at Redcat, the contemporary-arts space downstairs at Walt Disney Concert Hall, that the play comes so bracingly to life at their touch.
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But when pressed, she talked at length and in bracingly frank terms about why she was under fire in her caucus — and why it would not impede her.
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In "Little Women," the whole point is how little the movie needs from us, that it's passionate and bracingly empathetic (to Amy, no less!) but also exhilaratingly independent.
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"There's a lot of things going on tonally with the show," Mr. Hudgins said of a series where characters can be coldhearted, bracingly violent, then comically pride-filled.
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This linguistic skepticism, aligned with an insistently self-damning instinct, perhaps uplifts the poems from their suffocation in the void by bracingly bringing together poetic scrutiny and psychological abjectness.
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An appendix lists all of her jobs, from Lifetime movies to "NCIS," and, more bracingly for those starting out, the dozens of scripts unproduced over her 30-year career.
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At one point he bracingly compares the current responses to the reaction around Harambe, the gorilla that was killed earlier this summer when a child got into his enclosure.
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A magnificent dessert combined moist purple cakes tasting of concentrated blueberries with a powerfully lemony mousseline, bracingly tart yogurt "snow" and honeycombed pong tang, a traditional Taiwanese hard candy.
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The playwright Tori Sampson, making her professional debut with a vividly titled, bracingly powerful contemporary fable, has spoken about feeling censored when publications bleep a word from its name.
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But it was one of the few shows on the air to feel so bracingly tuned in to what it means to be a woman, alive, in 2010s America.
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And it was spicy, enough to send me into one of those sweaty trances, but also bracingly sour, delicately tropical and with a funk so alluring as to be primal.
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The Toronto indie-rock group Weaves has released two excellent self-titled recordings to date: a bracingly weird EP in 2014, and a more accessible full-length album in 2016.
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Until July 31, 1970, bracingly strong overproof rum was a vital part of the fabric of the British Navy—rationed, used as a currency, and a veritable way of life.
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Their tone is bracingly unsentimental, as is clear from the first swear words uttered by the chain-smoking nun who patrols the women's prison where Mata Hari awaits her verdict.
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The bar that is the principal location for "Sweat," Lynn Nottage's bracingly topical portrait of American dreams deferred in working-class Pennsylvania, is a place where friendships go to die.
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Seen that way, HBO's update is beginning to look like something of a miracle -- steeped in fantasy, yet bracingly relevant, and faithful to the source without being shackled by it.
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KS: I'll start very quickly, I interviewed Travis at Code a couple years ago and he was actually bracingly honest about what he was doing, which I now find fascinating.
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For an actor once known as the New Yorker's "coolest girl in the world," Sevigny shows a vulnerability—and palpable rage—onscreen that exposes the perpetual It Girl as bracingly human.
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The picture of me it had captured was bracingly if embarrassingly complete, but the longer I spent looking through old texts, the more I felt I was spying on a stranger.
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"'Faggot' swallowed him whole and spit him back out as a wet dream," Jones writes, one of countless sentences in a moving and bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry.
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But it's also true that the meeting of that mind and that world — a mind that seems as bracingly modern as its environment seems quaintly antique — is an endlessly fascinating subject.
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There just aren't many shows like it; the family sitcom is funny and bracingly honest, often taking on issues that most other TV shows wouldn't touch, from gun violence to police brutality.
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FX's Better Things — which Adlon created, writes, directs, and stars in — is the kind of intimate, bracingly funny, and generally underwatched series that tends to draw critical acclaim and not much else.
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The earlier film is a bracingly pulpy product of its moment, a time when American movies were breaking free of repressive codes and reveling — sometimes wallowing — in sexual display and rough violence.
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Mackerel pickled in rhubarb juice and presented on a bed of potato with an herb emulsion and crispy barley was bracingly good, the fruity acidity brightening the oceanic tones of the fish.
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Visitors still come from around the world to linger over slices of the bracingly sweet, viscous red double-crust pie and cups of the "damn fine" coffee at the U-shaped counter.
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But if you've seen any of director Yorgos Lanthimos' previous works, including Dogtooth and The Lobster, you'll know to anticipate something intriguingly absurd and bracingly bleak, with a pitch-black sense of humor.
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A veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, she appears beyond the redemption that she slowly pursues in a movie that, bracingly, doesn't ask you to like her, just to follow her lead.
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UNDER RED SKIES Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China By Karoline Kan The subtitle of Karoline Kan's bracingly forthright memoir flags one intended audience: fans of multigenerational Chinese family sagas.
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The Neue Galerie show points, even more bracingly, in the other direction and situates Munch and his contemporaries in the mid-spring of their lives, in the high-yield hours of noon to dusk.
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His next game — Return of the Obra Dinn — looks just as bracingly inventive, with players tasked with puzzling out the fate of a merchant ship's crew in 1808, using a time-traveling pocket watch.
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The work of the musician Abdu Ali, for example, combines the influences of punk, rap and Baltimore club (the city's explosive, ecstatic brand of hip-hop inflected house music) to create something bracingly new.
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This music, which for all its sublimity can sometimes drag, didn't rush — at least not after a bracingly brisk overture — but never lagged, the textures as airy as a June morning on Coney Island.
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This is puzzling because, in all other respects, this highest of high-end pancake houses, nestling among the haute-couture flagships of Tokyo's Ginza district and fitted out in bracingly minimalist decor, is perfection.
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Formato Comodo The bracingly bumptious sculpture "blogface" (2016), by Daniel Boccato, is a crudely made, all-green construction of epoxy, fiberglass and polyurethane vaguely resembling the visage of a one-eyed, big-mouthed cartoon monster.
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More than anything this book reminded me of the kind of old-fashioned British children's books I read growing up — books steeped in contrarianism and magic, delicious scones and inviting ponds, otherworldly yet bracingly real.
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Possessed of a bracingly forthright attack and a broad historic awareness, this 23-year-old vibraphonist can pull together elements of 1960s post-bop, 1990s neoconservatism and nouveau hip-hop fusion without forcing the issue.
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As performed by her with a physical focus and intensity that even the most probing cameras could never capture, this hourlong work of very live theater felt like the most bracingly intimate show in town.
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Most impressive, though, is that "Grace" doesn't flog the threadbare conceits of fantasies set in a vaguely medieval Europe — you know, dragons, trolls, elves — but instead bracingly delves into the myths and history of Asia.
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The best taco spot is El Metate—the name a reference to the grinding stone used to make tortillas in traditional Mexican cooking—located in a bracingly bright yellow building, and, so, is hard to miss.
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You wouldn't know from this program that there are tap dancers today — lots of them, both young and middle-aged — who can stand comparison with the storied past and make tap feel alive and bracingly relevant.
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And though one can hardly call Seuss' work equivalently lurid, it is vulgar in the best, positive sense: bracingly direct and unafraid of silliness, obviously easy to enjoy and always unabashedly fun in the first instance.
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This bracingly visionary and wildly influential 1927 science-fiction epic from the director Fritz Lang was cut by 21990 minutes by its German studio shortly after its release and further trimmed by the American distributor Paramount.
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At the game's eventual end, the outcome long decided, the scoreboard showed an L.S.U. team that had ripped Oklahoma's defense apart as no squad had since Nebraska's bracingly powerful teams tormented the Sooners in the 1990s.
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His painting sensibilities are harder to define, with bracingly austere abstract works by Mary Corse, Myron Stout and Jo Baer offset at Freeman by the helter-skelter figuration of Jan Müller's "Temptation of Saint Anthony" (1957).
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Under the influence of a bracingly cold martini, I wondered if its cold jellied beef consommé, eaten with a spoon — the kind of thing you'd feed a sickly Victorian schoolchild — stood a chance at a comeback.
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The dialogue was perfectly over-the-top ("talk to people who make you feel dirty"); the references were bracingly literary (The Outsiders, Hamlet, and Leonard Cohen at the Chelsea Hotel); the Ari Spyros (Stephen Kunken) outbursts unforgettable.
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Few elections officials are as bracingly honest about their intentions as former Republican legislator Mike Bennett, who became supervisor of elections in Florida's Manatee County after long lines had discouraged a lot of local voters in 2012.
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It gives us Prince at his most isolated, creative, unhurried; it gives us Prince who maybe had allergies; it gives us Prince who could write something as bracingly beautiful as "Wednesday" and then leave it locked up.
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In her 33 essay, "Passing for White, Passing for Black," a bracingly lucid personal testimony of fitting in everywhere and nowhere at once, Piper identifies the tragic miscommunication at the heart of so much American racial interaction.
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Nevertheless: No matter how much the young orange-haired Takahashi looked like Johnny Rotten, the effect of watching him, on YouTube, sing lyrics from ''Never Mind the Bollocks'' in Japanese is bracingly surreal to an English-speaker.
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Yet last June, as his first season was about to begin, Mr. Gilbert recorded Bruckner's sprawling Seventh Symphony, a towering work of the central European repertory, in a performance suitably majestic yet also bracingly direct and lucid.
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That testing had been bracingly analog: a clinic staffer counted how many push-ups each man could complete before his arms gave out or he reached 80 and was told he could quit showing off and stop.
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Part of the problem is that what felt bracingly new and original 18 years ago can't help but feel stale now, particularly when The Matrix's stamp has been all over action and sci-fi cinema in that time.
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In 2018, deep into the era of the "cinematic universe" and series like Westworld, whose very structure begs to be diagrammed, Annihilation's hallucinatory haziness feels bracingly out of step with the direction expansive sci-fi has been taking.
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This is the view of Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, and the author of "Sapiens," a bracingly unsentimental history of humankind, which was praised by everyone from Jared Diamond to President Obama.
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The fact is that, as uncool as their attempts at deep commentary on life's slings and arrows—well, mostly Jeff's, if we're being honest—can be, the Hardys are two of the most bracingly earnest men in pro wrestling.
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Warner executives tend to hunker behind those beige walls, which allows others in Hollywood — especially those who have left the studio under unhappy circumstances — to do the talking for them, at times contributing to bracingly negative news media coverage.
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In her review for The Times, Manohla Dargis called the film "bracingly urgent," writing that Simone's "metamorphosis culturally and politically features a glittering cast of figures — James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, among others — and makes for thrilling viewing."
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Mr. Pfeifer bracingly stages an all-strings-attached re-enactment — his fictional version fuses Brechtian alienation techniques with the showmanship of trashy German talk shows — to pick at both the alleged crime and the holes in its media representation.
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But the dish that winds up on the table — whether made by Palestinian cooks in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon or, like Kalla, in the West — is still true to its roots, bracingly sour and sweet.
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TV heroes typically were good people, or at least people who tried to do the right thing, and the exceptions (All in the Family's Archie Bunker, say, or the foursome on Seinfeld) were notable enough to feel bracingly different.
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It's a bracingly fresh experience, watching the story of Edwards — who willed himself through a loophole to, uh, "compete" in the Calgary Olympics in 280 — through the eyes of director Dexter Fletcher, a guy who knows something about the '248s.
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Cured local bluefish stands in for imported anchovies in a bracingly original interpretation of puttanesca sauce in which the flavor of each ingredient — garlic and tomato and chiles and bluefish and razor-thin shavings of green olives — was clear and distinct.
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How deluded they and their generation were, they belatedly realize, to think alternative rock was going to save the world ("Too late we find our feet"), and the admission of failure also counteracts it — metaphorically, in song only, but bracingly.
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More bracingly, the exhibition points to the influences of early-20th-century Western archaeologists, including those who led MFA-sponsored digs, who typecast Nubians as dark-skinned southerners, more "African" than the Egyptians, and therefore incapable of achieving comparable aesthetic heights.
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Perhaps the best part was seeing and learning how work by Yvonne Rainier or Trisha Brown connected with that of their sometimes overly lauded painting and sculpture counterparts through bracingly reimagined live performances that brought MoMA to life each week.
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Handing near-total control to an auteur like Mr. Esmail could have resulted in a doubling down on the series' most outsize elements: the rage-against-the-machine hacker drama, the bracingly direct anti-corporate agitprop, the bold and off-kilter cinematography.
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Though "Howards End" was published in 1910, it feels bracingly contemporary, in part because it deals so frankly with things that are still central to our lives: money, class, desire, and, as the ideal manifestation of all of the above, real estate.
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But many Brazilians, angered by their country's economic crisis, soaring violence and corruption scandals, interpreted his long list of caustic remarks as blunt but bracingly honest talk from a man willing to say — and do — whatever was necessary to bring about the change they craved.
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By 1730, the percentage of New York's population that owned slaves was second only to Charleston in the US. (In Philadelphia, a similar site resides blocks from AAMP, likewise commemorated with an understated plaque.) As an aesthetic strategy, compositing of this type is bracingly literal.
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A bathtub, not a sofa, is the defining item of furniture in "Low Level Panic," a 1988 play from the English dramatist Clare McIntyre currently receiving a bracingly acted revival at the Orange Tree Theater, an Off West End playhouse that is on quite a roll.
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But, as in the Brooklyn show, the artist's rulebook has not only helped avert a fall into the wrong side of kitsch; it has also endowed the drawings with a special kind of grace — a bright, clean, razor-edged sensibility that's also bracingly up-to-the-minute.
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Metcalf, her short dark hair curling around her ears, in a gray cowl-neck sweater and skinny gray jeans that looked baggy on her, deftly glided around the working set — an elderly woman's bedroom with a small vanity, a love seat, an armchair, a double bed — bracingly awake.
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Andrew Barker, Variety:: His performance here is no better and no worse than in his previous two or three outings, though what once was a bracingly anarchic approach is starting to feel a bit old hat, like a standup comic rehashing vintage punchlines for cheers of recognition, rather than laughs.
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Still, the acknowledgment of Mary Shelley seems long overdue, and "Mary Shelley" is a reminder that England in the early 19th century remains a rich repository of stories and characters, an era that can be made to feel charmingly quaint and bracingly modern, on both the page and the screen.
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In her own fearful, funny and bracingly intelligent version, which is sometimes in dialogue with Shonagon's, Buffam gives us the night thoughts of an insomniac on motherhood, aging, relationships, guilty pleasures ("beating a child at checkers"), things that are "unendurable" ("Dreadlocks on a WASP") and mustaches, among many other subjects.
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Landrieu, who earned praise in 2017 for his bracingly honest speech about his push to remove New Orleans' Confederate monuments, and Morial, now president of the National Urban League, both participated for years -- without black makeup -- in Zulu events leading up to and including the parade on Carnival's high holy day.
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It was salacious and highbrow, literary and lowbrow, silly, serious, a high practitioner of the parenthetical wit, bracingly and searingly dedicated to cutthroat critique, a place where nothing was sacred but the story, and to that end, a proponent of the truth, whether you liked what it had to say or not.
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The director, the cast, and screenwriter Joe Robert Cole delivered an hour of television as bracingly honest as any has ever been written when it comes to the question of what it's like to serve the justice system in a society where cops routinely treat citizens differently because of their skin color.
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All those literacy galas starring best-selling authors, the loyal appearances at Astros games (thank God she lived to see them win the World Series!), the endless questions about who she would and would not support, and the bracingly frank answers that often seemed a little jolting in a country-club Republican wife.
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In his three years in office, Washington has learned that when it wants to understand what Mr. Trump is doing or thinking, he will most likely spell it out in bracingly candid terms in front of a microphone or on Twitter — and not always follow the official party line offered by his aides.
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And if that seems a strange thing to say about Shakespeare's murderous thane, well, head over to Classic Stage Company and let Corey Stoll persuade you otherwise with a stunningly smart, bracingly lucid embodiment of a man who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses, in rapacious pursuit of personal glory.
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The Chair has been around for decades, but it was in the post-recession period, around 2010, that it became ubiquitous: its arching metal back wrapping just barely forward enough to intrude on your hips, the nearly flat seat inviting you to join it, coldly and bracingly, like Ursula inviting you into her underwater lair.
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Lager, bitter, pilsner, IPA, porter, stout, wheat beer, bracingly strong Polish brews or the bourgeois Belgian stuff that comes in a vase-like glass and makes you feel like a god among human beings the second it hits your guts -- you name it, we will suck it down like the sweet ambrosia it is.
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Seaweed imported from the beaches of Barrett's youth makes an appearance in the snacks that start the meal, in the wet smear of nori-like laver on the side of the gorgeous seafood stew, and as dusting on the rim of the Lost to the Sea cocktail, a bracingly oceanic elixir with extra-proof gin and kelp bitters.
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Written in 1858 by a former slave turned writer and abolitionist, the play is one of the earliest known examples of African-American dramatic literature, but has rarely been staged, probably due to Brown's frank approach to the sexual reality of a female slave and its bracingly dark comedy, which includes scenes of torture as well as characters from the era's minstrel tradition.
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My first book, "Before the Storm," was about the rise of Senator Barry Goldwater, the uncompromising National Review favorite whose refusal to exploit the violent backlash against civil rights, and whose bracingly idealistic devotion to the Constitution as he understood it — he called for Social Security to be made "voluntary" — led to his crushing defeat in the 1964 presidential election.
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Wilson, who died in 272, wrote plays with many storytelling elements in common — they almost all took place in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the playwright's hometown; they bracingly examined issues of racism, friendship, romance and memory; the shadow of slavery was ever-present, if sparingly depicted; and they were also vibrantly distinct in their settings, ambitions and theatrical destinations.
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Huang remains as dynamic and intelligent as ever at the sentence level, but productively exploring his anxieties regarding whether a straight Asian-American man can be loved by a woman outside his race, and can love himself sufficiently to return such love — this would require a far more vulnerable mode of candor than the one with which he bracingly proved that Asian-American men could throw down, deal drugs and get rich.
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Transliterations and adaptations of Chinese words — some Cantonese, some from a Zhongshan dialect — are still used to describe crack seed: "Kam cho" signals an infusion of licorice; "see mui" is a catchall for dried fruit in general, although the original term refers specifically to the fruit of the Prunus mume tree, the drupe of which is commonly called a plum even though it's closer botanically to an apricot, plucked before it's ripe and bracingly sour.
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After Ray of Light, Madonna made two albums (2000's Music and 2003's American Life) with French electro wiz Mirwais Ahmadzaï, with whom she would reconnect for Madame X. These contain some of her most challenging and thrilling music: with its glitchy beats and poetic lyrics, "Don't Tell Me" is a country-pop crossover that sounds like no other country-pop crossover I've ever heard—no wonder Miley Cyrus likes it—and the electro-folk "Hollywood" contains a bracingly strange industrial breakdown.
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