ingenious
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The “Obsession” score is an ingenious showcase of decay and reinvention, taking day-spa keyboard swells and wringing them out beyond recognition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The king of Ithaca’s pride in his ingenious trick is steadily sapped by a series of cosmic punishments.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
My colleague Sam Adams interviews Michael Arden, the ingenious new play’s Tony-winning director, about how he pulled it off.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
A typically ingenious comedy, it also tells as deeply American a tale as any—that of the world’s tired and poor arriving on the nation’s shores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
There were no daring helicopter rescues, no tunnels, no ingenious plans to dress up as a guard and stroll out through the front door.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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