Ask yourself if your intimate relationships are vampiric or beneficial.
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Modern grifters and con artists manifest a certain vampiric quality.
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And the effect of these businesses' vampiric models is obvious.
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About that butler: Was I alone in pitying poor vampiric Barrow?
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The pair is a vampiric vision under a beautiful branch-and-flower arch.
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Gibney's film in particular seems fascinated with the vampiric parts of the story.
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Elsewhere, they might spot an extra vampiric power, or an unused character model.
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Okay. Bezos may be a vampiric oligarch but a good pun is a good pun.
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Lemuel, on the other hand, is a dark-skinned Black man whose vampiric features — i.e.
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His age is secret but his vampiric looks suggest he's somewhere between 18 and 205.
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But I did discover bronzer and blush, so my skin was a touch less vampiric.
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Prematurely balding, with a somewhat vampiric face, Miller is an experienced troll after Trump's own heart.
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When you think about it, these shows are barely showing interracial relationships — forget about vampiric sex leeching.
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To protect those wily teens from vampiric rituals, you have to "trap" the demons throughout the house.
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But they wind up bringing something vampiric out of Mercury that I don't know was ever there.
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If American elites really do act like vampiric idlers, shouldn't the rest of us be a bit "prickly"?
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People believed that there was a vampiric beast in the woods, an they tried to hunt the animal.
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Specifically, it was "First We Take Manhattan," that vampiric voice speaking of conspiracy and dark things to come.
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This was to decrease the friction between Muffy's signature vampiric robes and therefore reduce the risk of wrinkles.
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Her alleged relationship with Britney was a metaphor, a testament to her vampiric appetite for the lost and formless.
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For an introduction into Ward's romantic, vampiric universe, start with the first novel in the sprawling series: Dark Lover.
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But looking at the image on the 2 XL's screen, my face looked vampiric, deprived of color and vibrance.
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Hereafter the great argument (like the original Marxist idea) had only a vampiric existence — technically dead, but still animate.
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The first trailer for Morbius, based on the vampiric anti-hero from Marvel comic books, was released on Monday.
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His father was beyond handsome, kind of terrifying in a Gothic, almost vampiric sense, with a criminality in the eyes.
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Above a vampiric nose and mouth of incisors that never stop growing, candy-corn-colored eyes glow like full moons.
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I feel like a witch when I get that makeup on because it's very vampiric with dark eyes and dark lips.
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The game's main character has his own vampiric weapon: a spiky gauntlet that can suck out the souls of the dead.
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"Twilight" fans certainly wouldn't have been happy if Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's daughter Renesmee didn't look like her vampiric parents.
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Now, the 25-year-old entrepreneur must fend for himself without a college degree or a vampiric financier to support him.
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Earlier in the Midnight pilot, it's shown Lemuel can use his vampiric abilities to drain humans of more than just their blood.
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Rapper and boxed water maven Smith broke down his brush with the vampiric in the cover story of French fashion magazine Numéro.
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He longs for someone to break out and "say something," the something that would stop the vampiric life-lie in its tracks.
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The golly-gee idealism of Dave Franco's Sestero makes him a perfect audience surrogate, and a wonderful foil for the brooding, vampiric Wiseau.
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And then there is an immortal Lakshmibai, fighting the vampiric India Company long after her real-world namesake perished in the 1857 rebellion.
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Keep your own jealousy in check, avoid manipulation tactics, and exit any relationships—romantic or professional—that are morally questionable or psychically vampiric.
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Plus, he might actually drain your blood and will probably use his vampiric tendencies as an excuse not to go down on you. Typical.
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It featured an irresistible cast of characters: a vampiric Silicon Valley billionaire, an aging pro wrestler, and a group of dirtbag New York reporters.
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"Blade," the 1998 film about a vampiric hunter of the undead was the key precursor to the modern era of superheroic pop-culture hegemony.
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Actress Mackenzie Foy played the hyper-aging, vampiric offspring of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (parts 1 and 2).
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Correction below Stories of countesses bathing in virgin blood, or vampiric nobles sucking the juice out of the young, have captured our attention for centuries.
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Free-to-play games, which cost nothing up front but accumulate money from many small transactions down the line, became synonymous with vampiric business practices.
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Mr Winter finds fresher material when speaking to Colin Gordon, a player-turned-agent, who has witnessed some of the vampiric practices of the business.
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Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism—rip it all to the ground.
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And the worst side effect of carnivory is never discussed at all: the vampiric draining of meaning from food until nothing is left but nutrition.
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Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism — rip it all to the ground.
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We can easily recognize her grotesquely vampiric aristocrats: They are more and not less terrifying because they don't have any supernatural powers of their own.
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My experience watching was so much more about the relationship, what she was dealing with, and the themes of vampiric/selfish art, creation and celebrity.
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You, me, LeBron James, Peter Thiel despite any possible vampiric blood transfusions, that dog in New York City who hugs random strangers on the street.
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That sketch became source material for a painting called "Dog Day Afternoon" (23), which depicts the dogs as ghostly monsters with giant teeth and vampiric eyes.
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Even the poster for Alex Gibney's upcoming HBO documentary about the fallen entrepreneur, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, boasts some ominously vampiric undertones.
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But it will also focus on a new vampiric analogy, framing the tech industry as an invading (and yes, disruptive) predator in the game's Seattle ecosystem.
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This putative treatment sounds vampiric, yet it's gained popularity in the Silicon Valley area, where people have actually paid $21,2000 a pop to participate in trials.
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He noted that a colleague's car was stoned by a mob, and said his driver's son has a friend who claimed to be a vampiric victim himself.
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Today's Silicon Valley may have fixations on simulated realities and vampiric blood rituals, but the the tech world has long been a subject ripe for horror movies.
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And then there's his vampiric turn as Marcus in modern fantasy drama A Discovery Of Witches, which already premiered in the U.K. and certain AMC-owned streaming services.
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The action felt both fast and flexible as I fought off demon dogs, towering undead swordsmen, and scampering vampiric creatures using a combination of magic and traditional weaponry.
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With more traditional medicine failing to find a vaccine, the doctors at Project Noah believe the vampiric virus' ability to eradicate diseased cells might be humanity's best hope.
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Notifications on your phone are a much more vital (or vampiric, depending on your mode) feature than ever, and so they demand more complicated tools to manage them.
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Meanwhile, the vampiric Brides of Dracula that Stoker conjured exuded a monstrous, perverted femininity—existing solely to prey upon male visitors to the castle, and feed upon infants.
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But an international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the origin of these vampiric insects extends even further into the past—back to the heyday of dinosaurs.
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When it launched in 2015, Apple marketed its wearable as a less intrusive extension of the iPhone—a cure for the vampiric relationship between phones and human attention.
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And that sound—of its movement, which is more a sharp sucking, a vampiric squelch, than any regular displacement of standing liquid—is like ice in the veins.
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They only resort to their vampiric diet in lean times, and blood is dangerously high in salt and iron — and low in essential nutrients such as B vitamins.
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So it's very vampiric, and at the same time, I'm more and more a vampire as I just go through these eternal narratives of Groundhog Day on tour.
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Such bio-renovation is the basis of an unproven, almost vampiric, treatment in vogue in some circles: transfusion into the old of the blood of the young (see article).
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Her venal manager, a terrific villain with a gold vampiric grill, pushes her to play a hood role in her rapping that white record execs eat up like sugar.
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At every turn, the game shows that there are other forms of predation that one would also classify as vampiric, particularly around health care and who gets access to it.
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At the expo, Ry and Ron run into Polly D., a vampiric, fast-talking journo on the hunt for a scoop who holds her own in the one-liner stakes.
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While Sailor Moon seems like a sure bet—she fights for love and justice after all—the vampiric megalomaniac Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure seems more like a Bloomberg guy.
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It features factions of merfolk, vampires, pirates, and dinosaurs vying for control of an island in a plot of treasure hunting, vampiric colonialism, and spell slinging from plane-traveling wizards.
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Photo: Richard Drew (AP)Facebook has stealthily launched a service similar to Onavo Protect, its vampiric psuedo-VPN that claims to protect users' privacy but actually collects and analyzes their data.
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They are not a part of the modern state structure in Malawi and locals often seek their help in resisting vampiric dangers, offering them some credibility to help address the issue.
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The mechanics are similarly vague, although we do know that the game is supposed to feature "a forward-driving, fast-moving, melee-focused combat system" in addition to your vampiric powers.
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There have been attempts to adapt Uber's platform to protect less vampiric industries—New York, for instance, has an Uber-like app that allows you to summon a traditional yellow cab.
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Where he'd previously written songs that could have fit into other non-vampiric bands, here Devore's avoidance of hardcore's signature chug, and embrace of more textural compositions, fit into Ink & Dagger's philosophy.
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While chatting with grisled nurses and drunk thugs is the highlight of the experience, you'll also spend plenty of time wandering through dark alleys and abandoned buildings using your dark, vampiric powers.
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The story of Hollywood is too often vaguely vampiric — with the older (and by that I mean "anybody over 30") preying on the younger in ways designed to extend their own career.
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It might not look, or sound, or even smell the way you'd expect it to—especially having seen some of its stars in vampiric fashion rag editorials—but that's a good thing.
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It is all about exploitation and making money off of those who might not be fully aware or awake; it is a vampiric system and there are all-planet entities which promote this.
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The cowboy is so incredibly awful that he makes Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy seem relatively decent by comparison, even when they themselves kill the odd human or (to slake Cassidy's vampiric needs) cat.
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Yet come the final season and a newly heroic Jaime is fighting with the good guys, while Cersei stalks King's Landing like a vampiric ice queen, torturing her foes in snuff-porn dungeons.
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They began clogging sidewalks across the Bay Area in late 2017 ($1343 to start!) as brands with four-letter names like Bird and Lime fought for dominance in the latest vampiric startup scheme.
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In the aftermath of a "roach hunt" to eliminate scavengers, we learn the military's blocked anything that interferes with efficiency: Soldiers don't smell battlefield carnage, and "roaches" appear vampiric so conscience can't interfere.
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The player is a fledgling vampire going through what Hardsuit refers to as a kind of "vampire puberty," but they've had the good luck to get in touch with the city's feuding vampiric clans.
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Though not technically a vampire, Anita's powers of necromancy in re-animating the dead, and eventual transition into a succubus, sidestepped the traditional supporting role and put female characters with vampiric instincts center-stage.
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There is something almost vampiric about this public siphoning of hurt, from the self-loathing of a suicidal young man to the devastating anguish of a woman who survived a childhood of sex slavery.
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She also starred as a vampiric countess on "American Horror Story," and the dark role proved that she was capable of being as much of a chameleon onscreen as she is on the radio.
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Some models wore Michael Jackson–esque Victorian suiting complete with white gloves and vampiric makeup; others donned swishy tracksuits, cornrows, figaro chains, and clan-specific gear contrasting Chinese characters with slogans like l.e.s. n.y.c.
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Austin, Danielle, Patrick and Rob discuss such monuments of game culture as Space Asshole, the structure of We Happy Few, the new expansion for Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, and the Vampiric era of London in Vampyr.
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Image: APIn a win for frustrated Comcast customers everywhere, the FCC has ordered the vampiric media conglomerate to cough up $2.3 million—"the largest civil penalty assessed from a cable operator"— for sketchy billing practices.
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As the vampiric count, the debonair Lee likewise calmly strides through rooms, but he also hurls his gargantuan six foot, five inch frame through the air without warning, leaping in displays of hyper-masculine menace.
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It also was described as having spiky hair on its back and small air holes in place of a nose, and being a vampiric creature that drained goats and other small animals of their blood.
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" In "Brighton Rock," the gangster Pinkie requires complicit silence and a sort of vampiric transfusion from Rose, the girl he dupes: "What was most evil in him needed her: it couldn't get along without goodness.
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In the trailer, Michael — who has become a leader of sorts for the newly vampiric — delivers a message to the humans of the world via TV. "My people and I are not terrorists," Michael says.
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First, the easy part: Let's take the offices of our federal government, now concentrated in the vampiric conurbation of Greater Washington, D.C., and spread them around, in poorer states and smaller cities that need revitalization.
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Photo: Richard Drew (AP)Facebook has yanked its vampiric Onavo Protect service—which purports to be a privacy-enhancing Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is by all indications data-harvesting Facebook spyware—from Apple's App Store.
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The city's inhabitants may have once harbored concern about the vampiric creatures that started billowing through their streets once a year, but these days they've clearly adopted Wave-Gotik Treffen as part of their yearly calendar.
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The lyrics are hardly clear about their vampiric implications — "I'm so tired/Of subjectivity" isn't a phrase you'll find in the "Twilight" series — but Ms. Hval evokes a goth sensibility that's fully compatible with the milieu.
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That has been the strategy of Robert Pattinson, whose discomfort, during the blaze of "Twilight," was painful to observe—the problem being that such glowering, reminiscent of his character's vampiric gloom, made him yet more desirable.
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That's not even the full name of the category (it's much more convoluted than that), but the fact is that Lady Gaga won for her TV series debut playing a vampiric bloodthirsty character known as The Countess.
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Where we once might have read that vampiric corporatism as a metaphor for natural resources like oil, it's hard today to see it as anything other than the radical changes that we are seeing in the global climate.
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Eilish is to SoundCloud rap as, say, Bryan Ferry's cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" is to the original, in which a cackling, vampiric singer both deflates and heightens what's supposed to be a serious showdown with evil.
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But Trump's specific beef with the Post Office, and Amazon's supposedly vampiric relationship to it, is specifically and overwhelmingly stupid because he's been corrected on this many times before by qualified individuals—notably the former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.
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In 1998, when Ink & Dagger released The Fine Art of Original Sin, they maintained a bit of their vampiric bent, but just as they were expanding beyond this ideology, they were pushing their sound into bold new places, too.
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In an interview with Clevver News pegged to Hotel Transylvania 3, Gomez was asked how her vampiric character Mavis might feel about the quick engagement between the "No Tears Left To Cry" songstress and the Saturday Night Live star.
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Centered on a resurrected witch (Barbara Steele) who was burned at the stake alongside her vampiric lover, "Black Sunday" was inspired by the Nikolai Gogol story "Viy" and by the classic Universal Pictures films "Dracula" (1931) and "Frankenstein" (1931).
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Holmes, built up as a striking female entrepreneur with a heartfelt personal story, is revealed as stilted and vampiric onscreen; "The Inventor" includes a haunting scene in which she celebrates a company win by dancing robotically to MC Hammer.
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"It's a reflection of the way the country looks at things, and make sense of tensions and economic pressures," Chiwoza Bandawe, a psychologist at the University of Malawi in Blantyre, recently told Radio France Internationale regarding vampiric rumors in the nation.
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But I believe there's more of us out there, who act like we're wise to this blight on society—that unashamedly sappy Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer's book about a vampiric romance—but hide the fact that we enjoyed this shit.
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With such a rich supply of source material, the show has the potential to go on for years, tracing the way the vampiric virus changes not just the infected and those who work with them, but the world at large.
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After losing its leading lady Jessica Lange after season 4, the series famously slated Lady Gaga in a main role in season 5's Hotel — which led to the "Born This Way" singer earning a Golden Globe for her vampiric part.
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For anyone who isn't raptly following one of the weirdest sagas in tech news, Peter Thiel is a canny entrepreneur with a side interest in libertarian sea colonies, radical life extension through vampiric blood transfusions, and unsettling comments about women's suffrage.
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Take the artwork for 2017 track "Visa Vulture," with its vampiric Theresa May—turns out it came to be because "We had one hour to come up with something, because Spotify had a legal issue with the previous artwork," Steen says.
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But for me, it was—is—Steele's vampiric, bestial persona that make these songs palatable, celebratory, even liberating, his sad green eyes the crucible in which the junk metal of goth girlhood was transformed in to something altogether more emancipatory.
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Amazon is not solely responsible for the toy chain's death—the primary reason for its woes was all that debt, which was largely loaded onto it by vampiric private equity firms that took it private in 2006—but the online competition didn't help.
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If Acquisti's research is to be believed — and here's the kicker for Facebook et al — there's little reason to think such ads would be substantially less effective than the vampiric microtargeted variant that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg likes to describe as "relevant".
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Embodied by the real-life Hungarian countess and serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, who is rumored to have bathed in the blood of young virgins, the trope now encompasses countless vampiric characters who include youth-harvested blood in their health and beauty regimens.
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I'm also going to guess that it won't be tied into her vampiric character from this season of American Horror Story, which is a shame because I'm already in AHS withdrawals even though the show has a couple of episodes left to go this season.
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We've covered a lot of good metal, and the vast majority of it— from Svalbard to Zeal & Ardor to Ilsa to Gaylord—was made by people with something to fucking say about our blighted society and the vampiric economic system under which we labor.
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Creators of FX's newest addition to the genre, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, are resurrecting their unique brand of vampiric comedy with an entirely new cast of characters in What We Do In The Shadows, a 10-episode series based on their film of the same name.
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Shauna Babcock (Brianne Howey) does excellent physical work with her strangely predatory motions in her vampiric state, and brings a feral energy to her human moments, providing a brilliant contrast with the stoic calm of the project's newest death-row inmate, Anthony Carter (McKinley Belcher III).
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But by the time its final credits rolled after a jumbo jet burst through a blockade that was holding a ferocious tidal wave of vampiric hellbeasts at bay — thus setting up a cataclysmic showdown that never came to be — Zoo had become a surreal goddamn masterpiece.
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"Celebrity Family Feud: Political Edition" sketched the motley circus of surrogates and campaign allies, including Ivanka Trump (Margot Robbie, her hair apparently blown by an offscreen fan), a vampiric Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Bill Clinton (Darrell Hammond, slipping on the role like an old sweatshirt).
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Inequality shapes this, too, which is how this election season—one taking place as a pandemic bears down on a rickety and wildly vampiric health care system, during the rule of a bigoted wad of clammy old ham—has somehow played out as strange, character-driven television.
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The lesson here: Stay in your lane, and if you feel the need to swerve, be respectful about it, make sure know your place—and if you want to rock a Disclose logo without lining the pockets of some rich, vampiric prick, just buy it from the band.
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While I was re-watching that scene, my roommate came home and asked why I was dressed like a goth madam in the middle of summer, but I have no idea what she was talking about... Ryder Rating: 6/13, Winona deserves better than creepy, vampiric Gary Oldman.
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From his beginnings as an editorial solution to the puzzling logistics of superhero uniform maintenance, to his weird alien and vampiric associations, to what he says about the future of Sony's Spider-Man universe, Venom as a character represents a lot more than just the opposite of his most famous adversary.
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The operation was considered so extreme that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Ronald Vitiello and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen—neither exactly a friend of the huddled masses yearning to breathe free—objected, and were pushed out of the administration by Trump and his vampiric senior adviser Stephen Miller.
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A headshot-style three-channel video by Yee I-Lann from Malaysia, titled "Pontianak Chapter 1: I got Sunshine On A Cloudy Day" (43), features long-haired women with their faces hidden, a reference to the vampiric ghost Pontianak, who became a monster after she dared to die while pregnant.
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As Madeline, she burns so brightly that you can see how the character compels and alarms so many people in her orbit, including her smothering mom (Miranda July) who Madeline sometimes thinks about harming, and the theater director (Molly Parker) whose rehearsals are a sanctuary until their "collaborations" start to feel vampiric.
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The episode also saw noble sacrifices in pursuit of that objective, as the vampiric Quinlan (Rupert Penry-Jones) engaged in one last battle against the Master, while Ephraim (Corey Stoll) joined him in a suicide mission, experiencing a fleeting father-and-son moment with Zack (Max Charles) before a bomb detonated, incinerating all concerned.
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More than five thousand people saw the version they erected in West Hollywood in 2015; every night, a line of eager hipsters waited for the chance to be led through the spectacle—past the cave of the "Polyamorous Vampiric Grannies," through the "Riot Ghoul Dance Party"—by one of the "demented women's-studies professors" who serve as guides.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has suggested a sort of thought-diversity is the reason his company keeps the litigious, Trump-supporting Peter Thiel on its board, and yes, the world's largest social network should absolutely do its best to acknowledge the largest array of viewpoints possible — even those held by quasi-vampiric, media-hating billionaires.
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That can't be all they offer — good storytelling and compelling characters and interesting filmmaking will always win the day — but The Walking Dead worked because it was (perhaps accidentally) about something people were actually worried about, right now in the 2010s, while The Strain is stuck trying to turn its vampiric world into a metaphor for past atrocities.
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On a large table behind the books is a glass bubble enclosing a scale model of Mark Zuckerberg's infamously-secluded home (he bought the 4 surrounding houses to ensure his privacy) as well as a reconstruction of the main offices of Palantir, the shadowy US government data mining contractor started by noted Donald Trump supporter and alleged vampiric billionaire Peter Thiel.
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Yup, the highlighter-purple shade that has also been the name of a Warhol superstar who died in 2014; a 2006 dystopian action film starring Milla Jovovich as a rebel infected with a vampiric virus; an online activist community founded in 2012 to combat sexism and violence toward women; and a kind of light that can cause skin cancer (ahem).
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It's a thematic through-line to so many of King's books: Consider the vampiric infestation of the eponymous town in 'Salem's Lot; the death that hovers around the boys of Castle Rock in The Body, the novella that became the film Stand by Me; and yes, It's Derry, Maine, a town built on violent bigotry and bloodshed, fed by the ancient evil quite literally lurking beneath it.
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Recall that scientific precepts have been appropriated and misapplied to all sorts of things things that serve the needs of hateful, craven ghouls through the ages: Social Darwinism hiding the vampiric acts of an oligarch class in the armor of natural order; discoveries in genetics and heredity fueling the idea of "racial purity" which framed ghastly forced sterilization programs as a means of assisting natural selection.
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If you don't really care about affordable necklaces or the smiling hey y'all drama of middling Nashville musicians and the women Kristin hired to do the social media of her lifestyle brand, Uncommon James, you will be drawn to Jay Cutler as if you were a vampiric body who only chose to feast on bored, rich men with probable head injuries who watch live deer-cams all day.
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And once again, Feige says there's a long-game approach in play for Phase Four, which includes the first "Black Widow" solo film, the deep-dive property "Eternals" (with a prestigious creative pedigree thanks to Marvel mainstay Jack Kirby), "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," upgrading a cult-hit character from the '70s kung fu craze, a revival of the vampiric "Blade" franchise that launched Marvel's movie brand; and the sequels "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" (promising to bring a more horrific edge to the MCU) and "Thor: Love and Thunder" (in which Natalie Portman will lift the hammer).
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