Corliss
Americannoun
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“Duvall’s aging face, a road map of dead ends and dry gulches, can accommodate rage or innocence or any ironic shade in between,” the film critic Richard Corliss wrote in Time magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Nearby, Corliss Phillips was getting soaked playing disc golf amid the sprinklers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023
The collaboration began when Barbara Bolin, a social worker at Goodwin House Alexandria and a lifelong rider and horse owner, reached out to Corliss Wallingford, the nonprofit equine therapy organization’s executive director.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
He turned up a description of milky seas on the Web site Science Frontiers, an idiosyncratic catalog of “unusual & unexplained” happenings then maintained by physicist William R. Corliss.
From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2022
Corliss, who at the mention of the Waiting Room had buried his face in his hands, was silently wiping tears from his eyes.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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