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Recent Examples of Potemkin villageEmma Stone and Nathan Fielder portray a married couple who build a Potemkin village of eco-friendly homes and pour-over coffee shops in a struggling New Mexico town.—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country.—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024 The resort reproduces an ancient Apulian town and farmhouse in a project that some locals have likened to a Mediterranean Potemkin village.—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024 The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024 Is the immaculate beauty of that metro station a Potemkin village glossing over the fear with which many Russians live?—Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024 Most of San Francisco will remain filthy, lawless and plagued with homeless encampments and drugs, and the Potemkin village will vanish after the summit.—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023 But Horizons Worlds, which as of October reportedly had less than two hundred thousand users, is so far more like a virtual Potemkin village constructed to keep the boss happy.—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022 The $60 million headquarters, for one, was barely a Potemkin village.—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
Meghann Fahy is back on our screens, this time as the lead in Drop—a new thriller about a woman who begins receiving unsolicited, threatening AirDrop messages while out on a first date.
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Charley Ross,
Glamour,
29 Mar. 2025
Make your bedroom a quiet and restful space, and avoid using screens close to bedtime.
The formula is infused with Japanese Green Tea and Aloe Vera to soften, hydrate and smooth your skin while acting as an invisible shield to prevent melting, fading and creasing.
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Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Whereas preservatives carry the heavy burden of acting as a shield between our food and the microbial or oxidative forces that try to corrupt it, flavors exist purely for our entertainment.
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