shaggy-dog story
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“Licorice Pizza”: Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy-dog story of self-discovery in ’70s San Fernando Valley feels to me like a loose, easy-breathing culmination for Anderson, a virtuoso filmmaker here at his most tender and organic.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
If “Motherless Brooklyn” could have stayed in that space, balancing its shaggy-dog story and social conscience a bit more economically, it might have been a home run.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2019
I wouldn’t have dared say that out loud, but even then, I think, I somehow sensed that this was a climax that wouldn’t provide much resolution, a space-age shaggy-dog story.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2019
The moth joke is not a shaggy-dog story, one of those ambling anecdotes with no point.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
You heard that big, long shaggy-dog story about exactly what happened and where everybody was supposed to have been at the time.
From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
Despite the multifariousness, “All-Night Pharmacy” is not a shaggy dog story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
In an interview last year, Prince Harry and his fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle, told their own shaggy dog story.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018
What results is a sequence of face-offs, each of which feels as if it might make its own play without adding up to much by the end of the questing, shaggy dog story on view.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Typical jokes included a riff on a bee travelling alongside her on the motorway, and a shaggy dog story about the year she kept bumping into 1980s pop star Taylor Dayne.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2016
He was beginning to feel like a character in a shaggy dog story.
From Off Course by Kelly Freas
