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Adapted from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book, it’s a smirkingly gruesome genre series that’s equal parts mawkish melodrama and tar-black comedy.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

Outside the walls, there’s a little fakeout: Dany blasts the Night King with dragonfire, but he lives, and smirkingly.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

Egils Silins's Wotan was the dominant vocal presence – intelligent, beautiful sounding, and intensely tragic, both in his confrontation with Susan Bickley's smirkingly proud Fricka and his scenes with Susan Bullock's wild-child Brünnhilde.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2011

All eyes in the television world will be watching — whether eagerly, curiously, smirkingly or jealously — as the Oprah Winfrey Network rolls out its initial programming.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

"My dear cousin," Pao-yü continued smirkingly, "how is it that you combed it for me in former times?"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft