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“Visually austere and narratively clotted, ‘Ad Astra’ tends to work best in isolated scenes rather than in the aggregate,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2020

What the author means by "Son of 'Ad the Greater," I cannot divine.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

If people had said that epics were only fit for children and nursemaids, 'Paradise Lost' might have been an average pantomime: it might have been called 'Harlequin Satan, or How Adam 'Ad 'em.'

From The Defendant by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

That more water than he oughter, More water than he oughter, 'Ad the poor old 'orse!

From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by Anstey, F.

The palla was flung like a cloak or mantle, over the stola, or uppermost robe, 'Ad talos stola demissa et circundata palla.'

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas