savagely
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Under the astutely unfussy direction of Joe Mantello, Ms. Metcalf’s remarkably fine performance is flinty, funny and savagely unsentimental.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
It’s a movie that at once celebrates Hollywood and savagely critiques it, that’s blackhearted yet sparkles with glimmers of romanticism.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
The wind switched from the practice days, the sunshine of Wednesday was replaced by 20mph winds and persistent rain on Thursday, the course played savagely long, the greens were hard and everything was a grind.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
“I didn’t yet have the words for what happened to me,” says Dylan, the narrator of “The Lookback Window,” Kyle Dillon Hertz’s gripping and savagely beautiful debut novel.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
As Scabior said it, Harry’s scar, which was stretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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