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Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Dick’s aim is to capture the glories of the region on canvas, but he also falls for Doris Owen, his host’s daughter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
His canvas art, full of fast-moving brush work, is often rooted in the past while urgently seeking to draw links to the present.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
He reached out to tap the window, only to find it was not glass at all, but an enormous canvas drop, a painted curtain, like the backdrop for a play.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.