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Adjective
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The crew is under the supervision of the capable Mensah (Noma Dumezweni) who is prone to panic attacks as the group visits an irritable planet at the behest of The Corporation — a powerful business conglomerate where profit is indeed king.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 May 2025 -
It’s said to cause people to become irritable, aggravate health problems, and abrade mechanical devices.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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Lawrence’s new mother Grace is anything but as an irascible New Yorker who moves to rural Montana with her son and husband Jackson, played by Robert Pattinson.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
24 May 2025
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Seeing irascible old coots soften when in the presence of cherubic little nuggets gets me every time.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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However, avoid touchy subjects and disputes with siblings and daily contacts.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
18 May 2025
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Given the touchy subject, the study authors are of course all Italians, by design.—
Francesca Giuliani Hoffman,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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And that renders South Africa’s relationship to America brittle, testy, and complicated.—
Jonny Steinberg,
Time,
22 May 2025
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The president has been seen by critics as siding too much with Putin and over Zelensky and Ukraine over the war, a sense augmented by a testy blowup in the White House in February during an on-camera press event featuring Trump, Vice President Vance and the Ukrainian leader.—
Ian Swanson,
The Hill,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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Lowenstein examines how excessive leverage, overconfidence in mathematical models, and market forces beyond the fund's control led to one of the most dramatic financial failures in modern history.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Sirens’s ending is a solid reminder that, sometimes, the most dramatic stories can also be the most realistic.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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And yet that scene, as well as the long mourning period Mahnaz goes through afterwards, is followed by several more melodramatic twists in a scenario that requires a certain level of disbelief.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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That Kamen’s script would attempt to marry these concepts with some grand-gesture stuff, real tear-jerking choices that also tend to read as quite cheesy, doesn’t surprise — after all, what’s more melodramatic than life itself?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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His Purple Highness Prince plays soulful expat Christopher Tracy, layabout by day, pianist by night and gigolo by later night.—
Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo,
Footwear News,
26 May 2025
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Cruise’s puffy, aged Boy Scout face doesn’t match the soulful grace of Chaplin or Keaton, or the anomic determination that Keanu Reeves brings to the John Wick films.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 2025
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“Perturbable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbable. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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