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What better way to make the afterlife slightly less terrifying than to see a version of it with our own eyes on the silver screen, whatever that interpretation might resemble.

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"It was incredibly terrifying and incredibly traumatic and damaging," she says.

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“There was something that was arguably more terrifying in having the composure enough to be able to let whomever else is there make wrong choices,” Bower said.

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"Either to terrify the residents and force them to move," he said, "or to put pressure on the Lebanese army to confront people."

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Ms Ahmed said her daughter was crying when she called, adding "it terrified me".

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

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