darkest
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Charlie Hunnam’s monstrously go-for-broke ‘Ed Gein’ is the darkest of horses.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has long reported on China's persecutory practices, says we are witnessing "probably the darkest period of time in decades" for freedom of expression under the CCP.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Are we still deserving of kindness when someone knows our darkest, most cruel impulses?
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
In our darkest hours, hope is what keeps cancer patients going.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
Everyone in the Pythagorean brotherhood was already tight-lipped—nobody was allowed even to take written notes—and the incommensurability of the square root of two became the deepest, darkest secret of the Pythagorean order.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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