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Recent Examples of darkly
All the parts fit well in this sometimes surreal, sometimes darkly humorous journey into the crumbling mind of a stressed woman.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
That, in a sense, is the story of motherhood, and what Mary Bronstein’s new film captures with bruising, darkly funny precision.
—Elissa Suh, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
His darkly satiric new movie, aptly titled One Battle After Another, opened September 26 to rapturous, or merely stunned, reviews, only to confront a $34 million box office intrusion from Taylor Swift — one that may ironically enhance Anderson’s future Oscar forays.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Vince Staples is back with a new season of his darkly comedic Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, which officially returns for its second season on November 6, 2025.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
In one of the film’s most madcap and darkly comedic moments, Linda bribes her daughter with the promise of a pet hamster — who turns out to be a biter, desperate to escape its box.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
With an all-star cast featuring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, and Rachel Sennott, Bodies is a terrifying and darkly atmospheric ride that could become a new classic.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Korean director Han Chang-lok’s Funky Freaky Freaks, a darkly comic ensemble about misfits on the fringes of Seoul society, received the special jury award.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Jimmy Kimmel—whose late-night talk show was briefly taken off air by ABC after Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized remarks that Kimmel had made about Kirk’s killing and hinted darkly at regulatory consequences—was one casualty.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
That, in a sense, is the story of motherhood, and what Mary Bronstein’s new film captures with bruising, darkly funny precision.
—Elissa Suh, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
His darkly satiric new movie, aptly titled One Battle After Another, opened September 26 to rapturous, or merely stunned, reviews, only to confront a $34 million box office intrusion from Taylor Swift — one that may ironically enhance Anderson’s future Oscar forays.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Vince Staples is back with a new season of his darkly comedic Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, which officially returns for its second season on November 6, 2025.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
In one of the film’s most madcap and darkly comedic moments, Linda bribes her daughter with the promise of a pet hamster — who turns out to be a biter, desperate to escape its box.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
With an all-star cast featuring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, and Rachel Sennott, Bodies is a terrifying and darkly atmospheric ride that could become a new classic.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Korean director Han Chang-lok’s Funky Freaky Freaks, a darkly comic ensemble about misfits on the fringes of Seoul society, received the special jury award.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Jimmy Kimmel—whose late-night talk show was briefly taken off air by ABC after Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized remarks that Kimmel had made about Kirk’s killing and hinted darkly at regulatory consequences—was one casualty.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for darkly
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Algren, stung by Beauvoir’s independence, treated her miserably.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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The decoy tactic failed miserably, says Zutterman.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Darkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darkly. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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