harken
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Just as she’d done with “Monster,” the 2005 short film which served as a clear predecessor to “The Babadook,” Kent wanted to harken back to the equally playful and nightmarish world of early silent cinema.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
At well over three hours long, the shows harken back to the days when big-budget Hollywood films trusted that audiences could sit still for more than 110 minutes.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
Along the way, they learn the language, rites, and beliefs of the “craft,” engaging in rituals that harken to Biblical beliefs .
From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023
Renovations and renaming harken back to Binion’s Horseshoe, a hotel and gambling hall in downtown’s “Glitter Gulch” where the World Series of Poker began.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may harken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about, in quest of what was once a world!
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge
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