embroider

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Season 2 feels like much more of an ensemble affair as showrunner Tony Gilroy expands the show’s focus beyond one character’s moral development to more thoroughly embroider others that are just as worthwhile.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

Grandmothers told stories of their mothers teaching them to embroider.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

For long swathes, she maintains suspense with a kind of danced click track, a ticking like a stopwatch or a bomb which the dancers rhythmically embroider.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2023

"Our embroidery masters taped their phones to lamps and used the torch light to embroider with a thread and needle," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023

In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt