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shadings

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“Coyote” offers intimate shadings on a story that will be familiar to fans of literary biography or anyone who has ever attended a 12-step recovery program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

But instead of those earlier films’ crime-genre shadings, Fukada now develops the more direct emotional stakes of domestic tragedy, and the sad, strange pathways that emerge from dealing with the unfathomable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023

Hall’s performance is remarkable, full of shadings and intimations of significant emotional depths.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Another modification involved adding some shadings of good and evil among the play’s female characters.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

Out of desperation I’d included some of my old Biology drawings, in hard lead pencil with colored shadings.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood