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cruel

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Still, they tried again and on the second time, something felt different as Daisy says: "When I found out I was pregnant again, I thought the world cannot be this cruel twice."

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There is nothing naive about these women who came of age during Putin’s cruel regime, but they nonetheless believe they can change things.

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Yet none found the back of the net, leaving the game to be decided on penalties, the cruelest, meanest, most unfair — and most exciting — way to determine a winner.

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“So I bury my head into work. My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”

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“The road being built in this corrupt, cruel way was a natural outgrowth of everything set up in the first movie. We’re telling the audience right away, ‘We explore heavy themes in our story.’”

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

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