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Ray’s mysterious and fraught history as a member of the British military during the Troubles is a festering boil this film will eventually lance.

No amount of martyrdom can save his legacy from succumbing to the rot he festered.

She compared the attempted coup to a "virus", which, if left to fester, can kill the society in which it has taken hold in.

In this respect “I Know This Much Is True” also is a dramatic tapestry of destructive anger issues, festering under a lifetime of repressed resentment and confusion.

Such incidents have resurfaced the Indonesian public’s festering distrust of the police force, said Jacqui Baker, a scholar of Indonesian security and policing at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.