There is grimness to the beauty of Kaiser's forms, and beauty in the grimness.
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That they are debating at all is an antidote to grimness.
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The M+M's Tour stripped Britney's grimness of any fairy tale joviality.
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One is the bleak grimness and the adherence to the extrapolation of reality.
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But hundreds of thousands languish in state institutions of varying degrees of grimness.
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With hilarity and grimness, it connects the dots between pleasure, pain and shame.
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The most frustrating part of Wu Assassins, though, is its straight-faced grimness.
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The flat-affect grimness and self-thwarting stubbornness of this season bear this out.
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The grimness of this scene pairs perfectly with the darkness of "Live Oak's" narrator.
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And some audiences actually liked the happy ending after two hours of unrelenting grimness.
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Shanty Tramp, on the other hand, mixes grimness with T&A from the start.
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There was something about the story and the situation and the grimness of the location.
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If you can't shake off the grimness of "503's" final moments, you're not alone.
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And, they're stuck, it seems, in this kind of depressive ghetto of grimness and psychosis.
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I'm curious if your work is ever in response to the grimness of world events.
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It's not that the movie's buoyancy alone makes it so stellar; fun doesn't always outweigh grimness.
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Rayman might have a tragic backstory filled with grimness and grief and howling at the void.
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In its high-tech yet one-note grimness, the Met's presentation can feel like a slog.
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And despite the grief at its heart, "The Staircase" never lapses into grimness or plodding pessimism.
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The stadium's grimness is a relative joy compared to the drive to Skenderaj from the capital, Pristina.
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Instead, the new film doubles down on the grimness, the ugliness, and the indifference to human life.
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He fully commits to the movie's brooding absurdities, rendering its costume-party grimness tolerable, even entertaining at times.
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The grimness of this experience turned them, and many other participants, into eager recruits for the communist cause.
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The Broadway-style special effects and choreographed dance moves, sound stages, and packed arenas only obfuscated the grimness.
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Nolan knows how to cap a couple of hours of thoroughgoing grimness with a dollop of schmaltzy redemption.
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After a while, a reader realizes he is holding his breath, craving a reprieve from the relentless grimness.
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HELLER Is sex in van Hove-world simply part and parcel of the grimness that Jason talked about?
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The unrelenting grimness matches the opera's darkest moods but misses its flashes of joy—and hence its complexity.
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Disney swept the so-to-speak grimness from the fairy tales, but preserved the crux of the story arc.
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Many of us are fighting them now, as a tiny bright thing requests our attention amidst all the grimness.
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He did everything in last year's Finals, too, but there was a Sisyphusean grimness to it that didn't fit.
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He operates by a lifelong credo of non-excitement, grimness in the face of all possible on-court pleasures.
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While the queen's posture suggests she is proud of her violent takeover, Tyrion is the picture of guilt and grimness.
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Painter Cynthia Talmadge successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.
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These are of such a grimness that when a certain notorious place is uttered by Kathy, my audience gasped collectively.
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"Amid all its grimness, the novel finds some small redemption in the power of love," our reviewer, Chelsea Leu, writes.
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His face was turned toward the boats, was not set in grimness, but strained with the restraint of sudden, florid emotion.
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I'm yet to find out what those consequences will be, but for all of its grimness, I'm hooked on Get Even.
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While at times the show could feel self-congratulatory in its grimness, it was addictive and thriller-like in its pacing.
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Mr. Ma paints a persuasively bleak scene that could use more psychological and philosophical nuance to go with its painstaking grimness.
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In this difficult climate, speculative fiction has thrived as students turn to magical worlds to understand the grimness of the real one.
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Reliably cheerful and blissfully unaware of history or politics, the dogs offer Gazans a rare escape from the grimness of their lives.
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I want to be wrong about the grimness of the future, but I'm not about to bet someone else's life on it.
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Or it may be that, as grimness creeps in, celebration is a strong defense, and living well and beautifully, the best revenge.
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The Last Ship, which airs Sunday nights on TNT, is a ridiculously fun blend of post-apocalyptic grimness, military heroics, and weird science.
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Germany's economy is booming; the post-industrial grimness of swathes of Britain, France and America simply does not exist on that scale here.
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And it's been Ellis's life's work to make us confront the absurdity of that world in all its grimness, comedy and plastic beauty.
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A few rugs and lanterns could not disguise the grimness of what was actually the musicians' locker room, with costume racks pressing in.
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I'd argue that the best episodes (like "Fifteen Million Merits") earn that grimness thematically and narratively, and the worst (like "Arkangel") shoehorn it in.
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Plenty of recent superhero films dabble in grimness seemingly out of a feeling that it makes wish-fulfillment hero-fantasy more serious and adult.
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A recent exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London emphasised the grimness of the period and portrayed ABBA as a "breath of fresh air".
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It's a weirdly addictive show, deeply fun to watch even when it's being over the top in its grimness, because there's always something happening.
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Yet he approaches the grimness and desperation of his characters' lives with lightness and humor, in an idiomatic Greek seamlessly translated by Karen Emmerich.
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His movies are not obscure or difficult, and they mostly avoid the grimness and violence associated with the new wave of South Korean cinema.
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But on August 21995th the grimness lifted somewhat with the announcement that two anti-Ebola treatments being tested in the country have proved effective.
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Wonder Woman could have given in to the relentless grimness that plagued Batman v Superman, or the blatant sexism that pulsed through Suicide Squad's veins.
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Just about every update seemed to bring greater grimness: closed bridges, more towering waves, suspended emergency services, admonitions that the time to evacuate had passed.
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The Cesnik story, in contrast, is a noirish whodunit, and Ms. Hoskins and Ms. Schaub, despite the grimness of the material, are doughty, humorous presences.
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Mixing poetic writing, stirring theatrical design, and a meditative grimness, it accomplishes feats of tone and presentation that I've never seen a game accomplish before.
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Despite the original Blade Runner's infamous grimness, Deckard was actually a bit of a softie, giving the film an unexpected warmth amid all the ambient drizzling.
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It's practically crying out for some snappy one-liners to relieve the grimness; why would we go to Mars and leave our sense of humor behind?
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But despair is not a strategy, and Ms. Nair and the screenwriter, William Wheeler, refuse to turn African life into a pageant of grimness and deprivation.
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An appealing performer who holds your attention with both his beauty and low-wattage charisma, Mr. Hunnam offers some much-needed relief from the pervasive grimness.
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Another reason was the political grimness of our times, which I have to admit put me out of the mood for music posts for a while.
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Tending toward a vivid grimness and a certain macho angst, these animations meditate on the alienating effects of technology, terrorism, modern travel and good old self-abnegation.
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All that I wish to say now is that the picture has aroused all the tender feelings in me & and softened the grimness that is all around.
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Thus, the state does everything it can to keep them alive, and much of the show's stark grimness stems from how life is almost always worse than death.
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On Hell On Earth he was spitting some shit, the level of graphic, grimness of what he was saying, but the calm in his voice at the same time.
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One critic from the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film's director, Ralph Ziman, "struggles mightily to weave hot-girl assassin shtick, trendy exploitation style and future-shock grimness."
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But its unrelenting grimness and monotonous choreography give that point of view little room to grow and add nothing to the poetry and page-turning drama of Brontë's novel.
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These works don't just share a location — they share a commitment to uncovering the grimness that lurks within close-knit, impoverished, tiny towns right on the edge of the wilderness.
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It feels like the world has been engulfed in a chronic-seeming grimness, and it was beginning to feel like it was no longer an aberration but the new reality.
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From the joyless frenzy of its opening number — which rhymes "velvet rope" with "grind and grope" — "This Ain't No Disco" wears its retributive grimness like a suffocating, Lycra spandex shroud.
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If "The House" had been made in the '70s, it would have reveled in the grimness of the Johansens' circumstances and exploited the moral tawdriness of their response to it.
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In Mr. Greenaway's heavily researched screenplay, Eisenstein expounds on film theory, the grimness of Russian life, and Hollywood, often in his own words, and drops the names of countless famous artists.
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It seems wrong to describe the wildfire wave of the ODH as an epidemic, but it's the grimness of the metaphor that doesn't fit, not the fact of how it all worked.
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The ball scene is all rose-red marble and gilded surfaces, with a sweeping curved staircase: It's very Palais Garnier, with a particularly resplendent Queen (played with scary grimness by Elizabeth McGorian).
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To combat that grimness, many students try to decorate their rooms in a cheerful, personal way, which for most means tacking up a poster of their favorite band and calling it a day.
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Beyond grimness, Chernobyl has something else in common with The Handmaid's Tale and The Terror: It tells a story about our world by telling a story about a completely different time and place.
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This diffuse, elite roster of the dearly departed has caught the attention of artist Cynthia Talmadge, who successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels, combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.
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The density of his brilliance has always been its defining trait, and the pure black-hole grimness of it has always given every indication of having consumed and crushed every other thing in him.
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"You Were Never Really Here" is hard going: easy to revere, fascinating to explore, but nagging in its grimness and, were it not for the rooted presence of Joaquin Phoenix, difficult to believe in.
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Still, there's a tenderness to the drawings, and one picks up Prendergast's affection for her characters and even for that setting, which in its grimness lends an unexpected sort of credibility to the story.
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The tired comparison would be to To Bring You My Love-era PJ Harvey, but this kind of grimness doesn't feel like badass boasting so much as it feels like a carefully harnessed panic attack.
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A black-and-white photograph of this building, reproduced in "Saturn's Moons," a book collecting various reminiscences about Sebald, has a sooty northern grimness that makes it hard to imagine a color version of it.
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The Alyx style, Mr. Williams said, is less a strict credo than a feeling, or maybe more accurately a mix of feelings, since it draws equally from street-smart aggression, Gothic grimness and military polish.
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Those movies are fascinating in the way they portray Americans, so privileged and blithely unaware of the grimness that surrounds them, coupled with a warped view of the countries they visit — as untrustworthy, inhumane, chaotic, primal.
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Like its protagonist, sensitively and shrewdly played by Lakeith Stanfield, the film is soft-spoken and thoughtful, with sweet, lyrical touches that alleviate some of the grimness without blunting the cruelty and injustice of what happened.
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But if you like the dark version of Batman popularized in the comics by Frank Miller and onscreen by Mr. Nolan, then "Gotham," with its grimness and its distinctive (and expensive) retro visual style, measures up.
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Sandberg has found success in Shazam by shrugging off typically cumbersome grimness and ignoring a need to fuse together with other films for a future team-up epic — all that stuff that weighs down most superhero movies.
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Harrow have been refining their heavily nature-focused atmospheric black metal for almost a decade now, and on their latest foray, A Fire in the Mountains, continue to embrace an atavistic, folk-infused kind of ravishing grimness.
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Offsetting this grimness are the boys' spirited speculations, which Grobler represents in childlike full-color drawings that he casually integrates within each scene to show that the two friends' ideas have already begun to enrich their reality.
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While the 2004 movie (which received mixed reviews, resulting in the cancellation of a planned franchise) seemed to sacrifice story for style, this new series successfully blends both together in a way that heightens the delightful grimness.
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At the end of this knowledge, if it ever came, there were the cat toys which this shop had in abundance: the other side of the grimness of cat life, the little balls, the lengths of string.
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That's why, if you didn't appreciate the abject grimness of the first 13 Reasons Why season, this one isn't going to win you over, even with the greatest catnip of modern television: multiple obscure mysteries and confounding timelines.
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Trump and his speechwriters decided that rather than doubling down on the "American carnage" grimness of his inaugural, it'd be more media-friendly to talk about dreams and jobs and veterans, the anodyne stuff of public political discourse.
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Her blank face registered none of the pristine grimness which so often pervades medical environs; hopeful hints of rose could be discerned in her pale skin; and with each gentle inhalation, her chest lifted slowly but reassuringly heavenward.
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Fincher follows Nicholas ever deeper into the rabbit hole and toward the picture's fabulous climactic double-cross—a fake-out that Fincher (and perhaps only Fincher) could get away with at that specific moment because of Seven's relentless grimness.
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Toronto was a city without an urban crisis, or, rather, its urban crisis was not slums or crime but a grimness and grayness that, in the forties and fifties, threatened to turn the entire city into a Presbyterian chapel.
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Any good man-versus-man story needs to create a vivid contrast between the sensibilities of its antagonists — between Batman's stoic grimness and the Joker's anarchic playfulness, or between earnest Agent Cooper in his immaculate suit and greasy, creepy Bob.
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Many were hopeful that after the terminal grimness of Batman v Superman, the Dirty Dozen-esque anti-superhero flick based on the exciting, Dirty Dozen-esque comic book might bring back the fun to the DC Comic universe and restore its moxie.
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While much of the opprobrium focuses, quite fairly, on Sansa's unnecessary rape at the hands of Ramsay Bolton, the season was shot through with darkness, ending on two episodes of unrelenting grimness—a nihilistic death march of child murder and promise betrayed.
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Disdain for Abenomics is also forgetful, failing to recall the grimness of late 2012, when deflation seemed inescapable, the yen was export-sappingly strong and the Nikkei 225 stockmarket index, now above 16,153, languished below 10,000 (it peaked at nearly 39,000 in 1989).
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His mother had nonetheless grown worried as dark fell over the shore, and his father had responded with grimness and silence, pulling strenuously at the oars until, by Milo's estimation, they were a half mile out to sea, under a black planetarium sky.
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Amid the grimness, there is an opportunity to experiment: "We're living in a time of virtual happy hours and virtual dance parties, virtual choirs and virtual 'breath connection,' virtual church services and virtual potlucks, virtual quarantine Shabbat and virtual sobriety meetings," she says.
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Photo by by Eckardt Kasselman Cape Town black metal collective Wildernessking first appeared on my radar back in 2012 with their debut album, The Writing of Gods in the Sand, and I gushed about them in miniature via my old Terrorizer Magazine column, Ravishing Grimness.
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A local photo studio lets couples transport themselves from the grimness of the war, posing for portraits in front of a selection of backdrops: a field of white horses, a palatial living room with a spiral staircase, giant floating roses or a gently flowing river.
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In San Andreas, Johnson's character comes across as largely indifferent to the suffering of other people as he tries to save his family, and his unrelenting grimness doesn't do much to draw on Johnson's charm or ability to make a silly scenario seem like a big group lark.
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So it has the same potential grit-and-grimness problem as The Wicked & The Divine above, except that The Golem And The Jinni, as a much more grounded and somber work with an overriding sense of melancholy and thoughtfulness, would lend itself much more to the studio's serious take on content.
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Momoa's more buoyant, slightly sardonic take on the hero — not to mention his shiny golden version of Aquaman's classic costume — is a pronounced departure from the grimness of the studio's recent iterations of Batman and Superman (and not totally unlike the recent direction Chris Hemsworth's Thor has taken over in the Marvel universe).
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With The Incredibles, writer-director Brad Bird — who previously paid homage to classic comics in 1999's The Iron Giant — veered away from the heaviness and grimness of other big-screen superheroes, making a picture that recalls the brightness and derring-do of the Justice League and the Fantastic Four in the early 1960s.
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But in a year where the other MCU movies (Black Panther, then Infinity War) trended toward an almost DC-esque grimness, this one is particularly enjoyable because of its comparative lightness, and the way director Peyton Reed gets to stage inventive fights that take full advantage of the Ant-Man growing and shrinking technology.
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Perhaps most famously captured in the dramatic images of Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, the Spanish Civil War saw the birth of modern professional conflict photography, with photojournalists documenting scenes of shelling, shooting, killing, and dying as it happened (rather than merely the quiet before a battle and the grimness thereafter, as with the American Civil War, the earliest war to be photographed).
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" Some people might find it corny that ultimately Wayne steps away from the grimness of the message, but I think it's also incredibly valuable that the song's ultimate tone is hopeful: "And if you come from under that water then there's fresh air / just breathe, baby, God's got a blessing to spare / yes I know the process is so much stress / but it's the progress that feels the best.
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It is Presidents' Day and, for some of us, that fact comes just in time, after weeks of February grimness, always heading off to work in the dark, heading home in the same, going to the store, cooking and eating and cleaning and walking the dog, then pitchpoling into bed only to explore the house cautiously a few hours later, wondering: Which one of us is sick today?
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But the whole reason for Trump's successful campaign in the first place — as well as Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE — is that Donald Trump so effectively captured the cruel grimness that has gripped so much of America in recent years.
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