barbed
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Such moments of barbed humor are infrequent in “Fatherland,” but Pawlikowski wields them like grenades, shattering the stifling niceties enveloping Thomas and Erika.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s Brooke’s vulnerability that gives the play its emotional ballast, and Ms. Rabe brings out the character’s pathos without neglecting the barbed tongue she inherited from her mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Dolly Parton’s estate has claimed that the late country music icon’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, went to extraordinary lengths to evade being served with a summons—including allegedly draping barbed wire around the entrance to his property.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
He has felt the squeeze personally too, citing high diesel, fertiliser, lumber and steel costs - everything from barbed wire to fence posts.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
We’re a semitruck, barreling through a wall of barbed wire.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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