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There’s an enormity in these nighttime shots of cars isolated in the darkness, chasing after the dust in their own headlights, looking so alone they may as well be on the moon.

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Ever since Las Vegas, Charlie Ledley had been unable to shake his sense of the enormity of the events they were living through.

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Amid the upheaval, Nehru's words stood out - a reminder of India's unfulfilled promise, and of a leader whose command of language many believe matched the enormity of the moment.

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AFP reporters witnessed residents grappling with the enormity of the disaster.

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Any of Gein’s contemporaries who are still alive would have been too young to fully grasp the enormity of the way he desecrated the memory and bodies of their community’s loved ones.

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