pungent
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Like Euripides, Ms. Hall finds Medea “uncompromising, harsh, skeptical, pungent, and yet often darkly humorous.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Still, with its smooth strings, creamy brass, pungent winds and friendly percussion, Noseda’s NSO came across as a gracious orchestra meant to please, and, consequently, a seemingly marvelous anomaly in an otherwise divisive present-day D.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
What she injects into the role is tart, pungent humor.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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