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wrongness



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Inspired by the idea of "today's aristocrats", it featured "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste", Anderson told reporters, departing from his safer approach last year.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

All of the wrongness thunders and falls and threatens to bury her alive.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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