Example Sentences

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The film invokes, individualizes, multiplies, takes apart and then wackily reassembles these enduring tropes.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

“The Nosebleed” also has some wackily funny, psychologically insightful scenes reenacted from the reality TV show “The Bachelorette.”

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Holly Hunter is the cop who falls in love with Nicolas Cage’s criminal; on discovering they can’t have kids, they get involved in the most wackily innocent child abduction imaginable.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2018

He’s a trickster and a shape-shifter, and when his magic short-circuits, his shifting shapes go weirdly and wackily awry.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2016

And they keep on trucking, right up to a wackily offbeat denouement that largely mitigates the previous jejunity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2015