In this chapter, the launch of a luxury concept store further expounds upon Nisha’s initial mission to honor and uplift African creativity–Zanzibar is also her home country.
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Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
18 July 2025
Of course, that also means that Garland emerges as the film’s true star — naturally, right? — and even when McHale’s other talking heads are expounding on their lives and careers through the lens of Dorothy, McHale often illustrates their points with clips from other Garland films.
The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
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Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
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Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
While others are content to anguish or pontificate over the plight of working San Diegans, Elo-Rivera is tackling the cost of living crisis head-on with his push to pass an ordinance mandating a $25 minimum wage for San Diego’s tourism workers.
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U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2025
There’s been ad nauseam amounts of pontificating about the current state of the Democratic party.
Over the years, my kids could probably recite my paranoid speeches to them about rip currents.
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Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Think buttons toddlers can press to play prompts on how to share with friends, and even ones that recite a step-by-step bedtime routine for kids to follow.
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