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Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie give superb performances as the parents of a dead child who encounter, in Venice’s dankly crumbling splendour, terrifying signs of her existence beyond the grave.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

The half-mad policy would have been dankly comic had not the results so often been tragic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, in a dankly contemplative mood in his overnight cell, Ginger finally grows up: "A man's life was nobody's fault but his own."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dark hair curled dankly almost to his shoulders, and he smiled slyly out of a dirty white face.

From Time Magazine Archive

His footsteps reverberated through dead halls, the echo curiously muffled by the coating of slime that spread dankly green.

From When the Sleepers Woke by Zagat, Arthur Leo