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I'm rather hurt, actually.
But would it hurt – actually, wouldn't it just be good historiographical practice – to give us an idea who's doing these things?
The Victorian assumption may have been wrong, but Nelson certainly wallowed in the prospect of his death, announcing that it was imminent more than once when he was hurt, actually asking Benjamin West if he would do a revised version of his epic "Death of Wolfe" when the time came; and the artist duly obliged with a canvas that totally misrepresented the scene aboard Victory.
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"You would think it would hurt, but, actually, no," Warren said of blocking the punt.
And although the usual charge against minimum-wage laws is that they hurt employment, actually the reverse is true".
In other words, the same pathways in the brain get activated when we experience meaningful rejections as get activated when we experience physical pain -- hurt feelings actually hurt.
It also wouldn't have hurt to actually meet the word limit, would it?
At least he didn't dare argue that all that hurting was actually working.
Never actually hurt somebody though and don't harm animals.
"Your arms actually hurt".
They actually hurt.
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