Example Sentences

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Best-laid plans None other than David Fincher was signed up to direct a new take on Dennis Kelly’s astringently original thriller-shocker about geeks tumbling into a criminal conspiracy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2017

More astringently, the writer Ruby Namdar testifies to the “wound that, deep inside, never healed,” for Jews, of the lost Temple.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

Hare, who is always at his best with female characters and the issue of betrayal, writes about the end of his marriage astringently and well.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2015

It is not lost on her that those extremes are astringently placed in relief in both "Cabaret" and "Birdman."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2015

Shouldn't sailed astringently into the air, the speaker an African-American girl wearing bamboo hoop earrings.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie