motley

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When my now-husband and I moved into our first apartment, we realized we had between us a motley crew: three forks, two knives, a couple spoons.

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The first film I saw in a theater was “The Love Bug,” Disney’s 1969 comedy about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and the motley team who race him to many a checkered flag.

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Through their perspectives, black humor flows freely, as the motivations and experiences that brought this motley crew together rise to the surface.

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One of the key modernist figures formed her dance company 60 years ago as a motley troop of five women who danced spontaneously outdoors for passersby.

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Yeoh describes “Section 31” as “Mission: Impossible” in space, with “a motley crew” of morally flexible spies.

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