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Both he and his film could share the same subtitle he used for his first short: “A glimpse into the penetrating insightful examination of the delusions of a bottom-dwelling dreamer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
There are two tracks to Mr. Richardson’s biography, his triple subtitle notwithstanding: the hero—molded by Alexander’s “childhood obsession with Homer”—and the man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The interrobang of the subtitle is a mashup of the question mark and the exclamation point that a New York ad man tried to popularize in the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Do you hope that people will adopt it rather than using the other terms that make up the subtitle of your book?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
True, he called it "The Barber of Seville," not "The Spanish Barber," but Colman's subtitle, "The Futile Precaution," came from the original French title.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
For many children living in remote towns across the Peruvian Andes, movies only exist in the form of bootleg DVDs — Hollywood films dubbed in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Most Asian films weren’t available in English, so Lee bought VHS tapes and added subtitles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The biggest gift of the streaming revolution is subtitles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
She watched it in Teochew with subtitles, she says, as she would any foreign film.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was a blur, like a dream sequence in the sort of movie that comes with subtitles.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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It’s not accidental that one sequel is subtitled “The Rage.”
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Grantham recounts them in The Making of a Permabear, written with Edward Chancellor and subtitled The Perils of Long-term Investing in a Short-Term World.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
“Marley was dead,” Charles Dickens begins the novella he subtitled “A Ghost Story of Christmas.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Both films are subtitled and in American Sign Language, turning the table on hearing viewers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
This was, in short, another memory game—that was why the Staff Picks display had been subtitled “Our Most Memorable Reads.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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And in motivated readers, subtitling works in tandem with reading to enhance vocabulary and literacy.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2023
On a more fundamental level, many American viewers not accustomed to Asian series will be bemused by the stilted, nonidiomatic quality of much of the crowdsourced subtitling.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
“We really wanted to create dynamic subtitling and, again, make it part of the design, as opposed to something that is separate and would take the audience’s eyes away from the actors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
But the media watchdog added: "However, Channel 4 fell short of its subtitling quota on Freesat, a satellite TV platform used by around two million UK homes."
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022
When it comes to translating films and series, subtitling and dubbing are the most common forms of translation.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2021
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