"It was apparently very blackened and kind of ripped up," Mrs. Gaillard said.
"The law has been kind of ripped apart," said Deborah Anker, a law professor and director of the Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program at Harvard.
If you're like most people, you're participating in exactly that kind of rip-off right now.
"Mojo" ended in sudden bloody violence — the kind of rip in the fabric that Butterworth has come to specialize in.
"Wimbledon had this institution, that was an important part of their community, kind of ripped away from them.
"Maybe we'll reconnect one day," says Wilson, "but everything that happened just kind of ripped us apart".
But the kind of rip-off revealed by the foreign exchange rigging saga is much more opaque and peculiar to the structure of contemporary finance.
Referring to plot developments that occurred on Season 4 of "Community" over which he had no control, Mr. Harmon said sarcastically: "There's something awesome about having all of those preconceived notions kind of ripped away from you.
One woman on the program reports that, at the moment her two children were born, her own screams "completely took me by surprise and just kind of ripped out of me".
