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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

The hours of attendance being then settled, he looked smirkingly in her face, and added, 'Which of us two is to hold the stakes, you or I?' shaking the five guineas between his hands.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny