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Descents can be exhausting but the AI isn’t smart enough to detect them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

A version of this review appears in print on February 22, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: Descents Into Sounds Of Dementia and War .

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

Also Descents, which were unusually decisive in this year's Tour.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2011

“The Seven Descents of Myrtle,” to cite just one casualty of the critics, closed within a month of opening on Broadway in 1968.

From New York Times • May 17, 2011

The Fryars are all Gentlemen by sixteen Descents.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von