savage
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Our critic said that in it influencer culture “is satirized with savage wit.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Early reviewers, writes Ms. Lutz, found the book “too gloomy, savage, and eccentric.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The lyrics to the haunting piece say: "How does it feel to be a savage and a beast?"
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
All would be lost, however, without Mays’ quicksilver brilliance — the way he can shift from savage irony to vindictive rage to godless despair in the space of a line.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Blore snorted with a kind of savage satisfaction.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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