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This should create a healthy sense of urgency - it should prevent critics, in other words, from producing the kind of killingly dull reviews that seem intended for someone trapped in a bus shelter during a giant rainstorm, circa 1953.

NYT > Home Page By SAM ANDERSON 2011

That last sentence – with its statesmanlike tone of advocacy – is killingly brilliant, isn't it?

So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse? 2011

Adam Mars-Jones's review … was at once erudite, attentive, killingly fair-minded and viciously funny.

Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award 2012

His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award.

Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award 2012

The inventories of killingly precise details became sterile — "all knife-flash, no blood," as John Gardner once put it.

The Quotidian of Love Sam Sacks 2010

It is very real, beautiful, wise, and killingly sad.

Children's Lit Fabulosity 2010

In lowercase they become so killingly matter-of-fact, which is the whole joke.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

In lowercase they become so killingly matter-of-fact, which is the whole joke.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

The gimmick lets Nolan have three clocks ticking down instead of one which should be killingly suspenseful.

'Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream 2010

Money is one of my favourite books – killingly funny, savage, critical, and stylistically and structurally bent.

I’ve torn my rug out getting my head round this 2009