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wrongness



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He said he didn't want "normality" as he reimagined modern-day aristocrats for his second men's collection, adding that his designs included some "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste".

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon Nov. 7, 2025

The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.

From Slate Oct. 29, 2024

As they moved slowly down the path the wrongness of it all swelled inside Henry.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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