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Vernazza and Manarola are often considered the prima donnas of Cinque Terre, but Monterosso al Mare wins for personality, with the most to offer visitors from where to bed down to local wining and family-run dining.
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Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Maui Sunrise: Roses have a prima donna reputation as high-maintenance water hogs, but Andy Klittich, manager of Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore (open to the public), says that’s a bad rap.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Some might call it retrograde for a work from 1996, but its indebtedness to Puccini suits a story about a wistful prima donna in the early nineteen-hundreds.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Maui Sunrise: Roses have a prima donna reputation as high-maintenance water hogs, but Andy Klittich, manager of Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore (open to the public), says that’s a bad rap.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Some might call it retrograde for a work from 1996, but its indebtedness to Puccini suits a story about a wistful prima donna in the early nineteen-hundreds.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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Doubles The Los Angeles Dodgers were third in the MLB in doubles this season with 291.Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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With Wimbledon doubles’ champion Taylor Townsend on the board of directors, BGTC has provided countless community clinics across the nation, partnered with local historically Black college and university tennis teams, and had Zendaya step out in their merch.Essence, Essence, 17 Oct. 2024
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However, Shane wasn't the only pop princess present.Athena Sobhan, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Harry and Eugenie have always been close, while the princess and Meghan have long moved in the same circles.Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2024
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
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Bettany of course starred opposite MCU leading lady Elizabeth Olsen in WandaVision, Disney+’s flagship Marvel series that introduced viewers to Agatha (played by a scene-stealing Kathryn Hahn).Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Oct. 2024
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Lloyd hopes the performance changes the way his leading lady is perceived in the entertainment industry.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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Join 5 others in the comments View Comments One fresco likely portrays the Judgement of Paris, though it has been damaged by previous excavations, and another shows Venus, the goddess of love, and Adonis, her mortal lover.Issy Ronald, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
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Nigel has a couple of tattoos, including an upper back tattoo of the Egyptian goddess Maat, inspired by stories his grandmother used to tell him and his Hieroglyphics class at Howard.Emily Krauser, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Threads from each of the 21 previous Marvel films come to a head in this satisfying, unexpectedly emotional finale which is notable for passing the baton from Tony Stark to Spider-Man in terms of MCU leading men.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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The latter movie opened up numerous doors for Quan who will now be making his leading man and action hero debut with Universal Pictures and 87North’s Love Hurts, which will open Feb. 7, 2025.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
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One such fan is Paolo Presta, who was busy working at his family's grocery store outside of Chicago when Winfrey and her team popped in to gift the aspiring actor a walk-on speaking role on Will & Grace.Kate Hogan, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Adams typically enters his Tuesday briefings accompanied by triumphant walk-on music and a phalanx of deputies, including his chief legal counsel.Jake Offenhartz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Prima donna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prima%20donna. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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