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Example sentences for: refreshingly

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Roads are refreshingly free of traffic; a prime source of motive power is still the tiny ponies pulling unlikely loads in two-wheeled traps.
The marriage of counterculture and capitalism is hardly a new subject, but Frank does provide a refreshingly unsentimental look at it.
Still others, such as Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker, predict the unpredictable Drudge, a "refreshingly snarky news anchor," will shake up political television.
Critics describe this detective novel, the author's first, as "part Thomas Pynchon, part Ralph Ellison" (Dan Cryer, New York Newsday ) and praise Whitehead as a refreshingly original voice.
Reviews praise Woodard's nuanced performance and call the film "uplifting, and unapologetically so" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). Although it borders on becoming "a cinematic Hallmark card of familial togetherness" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ), most critics find the story emotionally powerful and refreshingly upbeat.