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They've called their album "the record", in a play on the faux-humility of Bob Dylan's backing group The Band; while the song Leonard Cohen simultaneously praises and pillories one of Dacus's inspirations.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
The fact that these authorities do not address the general public, unlike the intellectuals Ross pillories, does not raise his democratic hackles.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
I shall have to humiliate them in the pillories of the national charts, and in doing so buy myself a big house.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2019
Is one of Samson's foxes; he sets men together by the ears, more shamefully than pillories, and in a long vacation his sport is to go a fishing with the penal statutes.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
