Scotland is a divided and bruised country, says Bruce.
But Bruce said Scotland needed diversity and plurality: "Scotland is a divided and bruised country with just one Liberal Democrat, one Conservative and Labour MP, and the SNP are quite clearly trying to extinguish all opposition in Scotland.
Jeblawi, bruised and dehydrated, has to be restrained from excitedly hugging every European she sees.
There is a satisfying immediacy in the saving of lives, the patching up of the bumped and bruised, even in the abusive, drunken chaos of a Saturday night waiting room.
Several media outlets obtained photographs of the child's apparently cut and bruised skin.
Bewildered secret service agent Matt Dillon wakes up bloodied and bruised in a small town in Idaho, where the requisite secrets lurk just beneath the picture-perfect surface.
But not as bruised, perhaps, as broadcaster Piers Morgan, who agreed to face an over from Brett Lee after criticising the England team's performance.
Colin Graves, the new chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, pitched up for his first day at the crease already feeling battered and bruised by the all‑encompassing Kevin Pietersen saga that threatens to suck the whole of the sport into its vortex.
Marc Stears, one of Miliband's closest allies, admitted the unexpected scale of the defeat had hurt the former Labour leader: "Although I am sure he is bruised, I am also sure he still believes that unless someone at some point deals with the inequality story, we are in a mess as a country.
One was the story of a 22-year-old black man, who was beaten so badly when Chicago police found him smoking marijuana that he awoke from consciousness in Cook County jail with "22 stitches in my tongue, two facial fractures, bruised ribs, scrapes all over my body … an orbital fracture, a nasal fracture".
Under huge pressure from activists bruised by terrible council and referendum votes, Clegg has spent six months attacking his coalition partners.
