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In the swooningly beautiful 1990 film “Days of Being Wild,” Tony Leung gets one of the greatest entrances — and exits — ever accorded an actor in a single movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2021

If “Mrs. Dalloway” is a swooningly gorgeous book, it is also a dark and disquieting one.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020

Incredibly, given its subject matter, the song sounds swooningly romantic.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2020

Set in 1962, at the height of the Cold War, and referencing midcentury monster movies and musicals, del Toro’s swooningly romantic film is less thriller than love letter to old Hollywood.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2017

Yet I was neither brutally rude like Penfentenyou, nor swooningly bored like the Agent-General.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard