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"My first thought when they approached me about taking part was abject terror," said the 39-year-old.

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The nation of Braveheart alternated exclusively between valiant defeat and abject humiliation.

Hutton appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court for sentencing on Thursday, where District Judge Francis Rafferty described her act as one of "abject wickedness".

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"That was probably the last time she walked and called me mum," Natasha said of the surgery which she described as an "abject failure".

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Fuchs added that those ideals, the power of love and unified belief in the face of abject horror, are what drew him to the book and made him fall for the movies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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