The best measure of how well the Nats have played is that almost their entire lineup is hitting well, maintaining constant pressure, despite facing Kershaw twice and in two games here battling brutal shadows for several innings in both games.
It's a love story played out in a brutal world shadowed by a past event known only as "What Happened, If It Happened".
A dark, brutal look at the shadows darkening the Hong Kong triads, the film picks up the narrative line expertly coiled and kinked in Mr. To's companion piece made the year before, "Election".
Booker bristled at the depiction and in a heated letter to the magazine, called the Savior cliche "the most insulting part" (emphasis, his) of a brutal portrayal of Newark, Shadow Skyline of The Damned.
That journey became his inspiration for "Heart of Darkness," a puzzling novella with nested narrators who unfolded a shadowed, strangled, brutal tale.
A brutal look at the shadows darkening the Hong Kong triads, the film picks up the narrative line first coiled and kinked in Mr. To's companion thriller, "Election".
The Open has long been known for its abuses: antics by Connors, Nastase and McEnroe; brutal heat and humidity; night shadows that spooked Borg; offensive smells at low tide; wayward smoke from the kitchens; surly manners; high prices; bad sight lines.
If the Tour de France is the best known and most glamorous cycling race in the world, the Giro d'Italia is its grittier and rather more brutal brother lurking in the shadows.
The postponement will increase tension surrounding an intense election campaign which has been conducted in the shadow of Boko Haram's brutal assaults on towns and villages of the north-east.
Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said years of "brutal Tory cuts to services" were taking their toll on those who most needed support.
