reign of terror
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Fring’s illicit power and reign of terror established a spectrum of villainy to measure against Walter White and Saul Goodman’s moral ambiguity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2024
There was nothing covert or forgettable about her reign of terror, which saw the Hawkeyes reach their first title game, which they lost to LSU on Sunday.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023
The Islanders beat the Rangers in an overtime clincher, then rallied from three games down to stun Pittsburgh before nearly ending the Philadelphia Flyers’ “Broad Street Bullies” reign of terror before it truly got started.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023
Folk of a pleasant kingdom held between Fire's reign of terror and the latter day When dying, soon in turn his child must die.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
