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Though Ridley Scott works in a drastically different tone than the one John Carpenter brought to Dark Star, the two films share screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s darkly comedic view of a future that has reduced humans to alternately bored and terrified cogs in larger machines.—
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
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It’s billed as a darkly comic Southern story about redemption, survival, and small-town chaos.— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
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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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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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Joseph and his supporters were clad in green and white and marched somberly to the election council’s headquarters.— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
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As a light dusting of snow fell over Minneapolis Sunday morning, community members lit candles, laid fresh flowers and stood somberly around a makeshift vigil at the site of Pretti’s death.— Michael Biesecker, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
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Take, for example, Keanu Reeves, who was memeified after a photo of the actor sullenly eating a sandwich went viral.— Ben Pettis, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.— Nora DeLigter, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2026
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Then there is the steady stream of profiles on tech billionaires joylessly devoting themselves to maximizing their lifespan.— CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
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For example, professors Morana Koludrovic and Franceska Delija at the University of Split in Croatia also make the point, more pessimistically, however, that the young can no longer learn from the old, not with all the changes in technology and media.— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2026
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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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“Mirthlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/mirthlessly. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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