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Gaslight 20229/2/2023 ![]() It was a traditional mystery with some supernatural elements to it, in the style of keeping the audience in the dark and guessing as to what it going on and who done it. I have to say that writers Neha Sharma, Pavan Kirpalani and Ameet Mehta put together a rather enjoyable and entertaining script and storyline. But that hardly really mattered, because I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance. Sure, I hadn't heard about the movie prior to watching it. And thus, I opted to sit down and watch director Pavan Kirpalani's 2023 mystery thriller without even a moment of doubt. So I have been missing out on a large number of movies here actually. But I found out that it is the Bollywood subgenre. I've always avoided their movies, as I thought it was all laced with random singing and dancing. “Loamy,” which many Wordle users tried back in August, though the right word that day was “clown.When I sat down to watch the 2023 Indian mystery thriller "Gaslight", it was actually my second Indian movie ever to watch. “LGBTQIA,” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual, aromantic or agender. “Sentient,” with lookups brought on by Google canning the engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient. “Raid,” as in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. “Queen consort,” what King Charles’ wife, Camilla, is newly known as. “Codify,” as in turning abortion rights into federal law. “Omicron,” the persistent Covid-19 variant and the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. “Oligarch,” driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Last year's pick was “vaccine.” Rounding out this year's Top 10 are: ![]() “Gaslighting,” Sokolowski said, spent all of 2022 in the top 50 words looked up on to earn top dog word of the year status. Some of the droves who looked up “gaslighting” this year might have wanted to know, simply, if it's one or two words, or whether it's hyphenated. ![]() They don't slice and dice why people look up words, which can be anything from quick spelling and definition checks to some sort of attempt at inspiration or motivation. Sokolowski and his team weed out evergreen words most commonly looked up to gauge which word received a significant bump over the year before. Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million page views a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based solely on data. It has possibly an idea of strategy or a long-term plan.” It’s something that has a little bit more devious quality to it. “And once one is aware of that deception, it’s not just a straightforward lie, as in, you know, I didn’t eat the cookies in the cookie jar. “There is this implication of an intentional deception,” Sokolowski said. The term gaslighting was later used by mental health practitioners to clinically describe a form of prolonged coercive control in abusive relationships. She played Nancy Oliver, a young maid hired by Gregory and told not to bother his “high-strung” wife. The death of Angela Lansbury in October drove some interest in lookups of the word, Sokolowski said. Among other instances, he insists her complains over the constant dimming of their London townhouse's gaslights is a figment of her troubled mind. The two marry after a whirlwind romance and Gregory turns out to be a champion gaslighter. One, George Cukor's “Gaslight” in 1944, starred Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist and Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton. It birthed two film adaptations in the 1940s. There's also “medical gaslighting,” when a health care professional dismisses a patient's symptoms or illness as “all in your head.”ĭespite its relatively recent prominence - including “Gaslighter,” The Chicks' 2020 album featuring the rousingly angry titular single - the word was brought to life more than 80 years ago with “Gas Light,” a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton. It can be a corporate tactic, or a way to mislead the public. It can happen between romantic partners, within a broader family unit and among friends. Gaslighting is a heinous tool frequently used by abusers in relationships - and by politicians and other newsmakers. Merriam-Webster's top definition for gaslighting is the psychological manipulation of a person, usually over an extended period of time, that “causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.” “It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year,” he said.
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