If your stylist is plaiting your hair too tightly, be vocal and ask them to ease up.
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Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
24 June 2025
The various story strands are plaited together so neatly as to become a single braid, with an emphasis on how much these lives interlock as the shelter inmates support each other.
In the vein of Jim Ford and Tony Joe White, East’s voice is fully formed here, twining country rootstock with soul and gospel so tightly that the traditions feel inseparable, and rightly so.
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Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2025
At his best, McCann does an assiduous, subtle job of twining his metaphors through everyday life.
Smell is deeply entwined with taste: Taste buds provide us with broad experiences such as salty, spicy and sweet flavors, while the nuances of a caprese salad with balsamic glaze come from the nose.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
3 July 2025
The book’s a meld of true crime, memoir and social commentary, but with a mission: to shock readers into a deeper understanding of the American Nightmare, ecological devastation entwined with senseless sadism.
Muncy writhed on the ground in obvious pain before being helped to the clubhouse.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2025
On damp nights, when the wind dies down and the temperature is just so, the fields fairly writhe with the pale, glistening constituents of Lumbricus terrestris surfacing from the depths to feed and mate.
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