broody
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The camera takes time to adore the young protagonists, to admire their excellent surfaces, to look them straight in their moody, broody, serious eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025
Stewart’s non-gender-conforming streak started to surface in her portrayal of broody heroine Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga, which the actor said in a January interview with Variety had a “very Gothic, gay inclination.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
When British boy band One Direction, assembled on British talent show “The X Factor” in 2010, disassembled in early 2016, many assumed that beautiful, broody Zayn Malik would be the group’s breakout star.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2022
“Whatever, Ms. Gifted-in-Everything. I’m going to check it out. Are you coming with, or are you going back to cower with the rest of the broody hens?”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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