irreverent
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At the time, the irreverent news website had seemingly cracked the code for social-media virality.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
For decades, Chinese brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang have made a name for themselves with sculptures like this: irreverent contemporary artworks that skewer the authoritarian past, and present, of their native homeland.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Setting out to make a film about the Civil War general burning his way through the South, he ended up with an irreverent, semi-solipsistic travelogue organized around the women he encountered along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The cold sun made their faces like copper and brass, and through the closed window John heard their coarse, irreverent voices.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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