Example Sentences

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That's a mixed blessing, to be sure, but "Nightmare on Elm Street" was also "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was, dynamiting conventional screen distinctions between dream, reality and psychosis.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2010

At 72 she has the same Dutch-boy haircut that she had four decades ago, when she was dynamiting a place for herself in the New York art world.

From Time Magazine Archive