No-one is ever sure how their body will react until it is subject to such brutal pace over distance.
But the real highlight was "Amériques," usually a barnstormer — or, really, a tornado that hurls a barn across a field — but here offered as a subtle essay in the distance between brutal volume and gentle delicacy.
The arrest of the Washington Post's Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani's reforming promises and his willingness to act.
Urban inequalities are often reflected in brutal ways – from the distance people must travel to work every day, to the lack of quality public spaces, urban amenities and civic services.
Football is brutal only from a distance.
Frail but steely, she mocked them: an eye for the absurd, she said, helped to keep her mental distance from those "brutal, cold, murderous, contemptuous people".
While putting the blame on Isis and similar groups — Obama said the militants masqueraded as religious leaders but were really terrorists — the president also appealed directly to prominent Muslims to do more to distance themselves from brutal ideologies, calling it the duty of all to "speak up very clearly" in opposition to violence against innocent people.
Governments encouraged the monopolies, yet also distanced themselves from brutal consequences.
The first one is an approximate algorithm which only considers points on a fine grid, and will use brutal force to compute the distances.
For years, the U.S. military has sought to distance itself from the brutal conflict in Yemen, where Saudi-led forces are battling Houthi rebels.
