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Eye-gougings, stabbings, a flying guillotine, and a buzz saw are just some of the tools of the trade Therese uses to kill her opponents.
Mad Cowgirl (2006) 2010
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She would white out keys, put blindfolds on offenders before speed tests, threaten amputations and/or eye gougings.
Touchy-Feely 2005
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She would white out keys, put blindfolds on offenders before speed tests, threaten amputations and/or eye gougings.
July 2005 2005
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The allegations of price gougings come after officials declared half of this country's planned vaccine supply is contaminated.
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Italians as being different to that pursued now; the assistant sees nought but rough gougings and scratchings as with a notched or blunted tool, and concludes that the old makers were not as good workmen as the moderns.
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. Horace Petherick 1879
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They made a ring, "moseyed" into it, and no cool man -- one who had the least sympathy for his tabernacle -- would have taken the knocks, kicks, bites, gougings, battings, etc., that were given and received by those two duelists for a trifle.
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But we have gone for the dynamic forward as it is more difficult to stand out in the pack than wider out and Ferris has been an immense carrier who possesses pace and power that's caused plenty of problems for all opponents of late (he has also been the subject of two gougings and a stamp in recent games!)
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But we have gone for the dynamic forward as it is more difficult to stand out in the pack than wider out and Ferris has been an immense carrier who possesses pace and power that's caused plenty of problems for all opponents of late (he has also been the subject of two gougings and a stamp in recent games!)
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Quite apart from the squeamishness of having to witness a woman with needles placed under her eyes (something which Argento created as a deliberate nod to the fact that he wanted audiences to be in the same position as Betty: unable to shut their eyes to the violence going on in front of them), there are violent stabbings, eye gougings and beatings a-plenty.
DVD Times 2010
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Aronofsky brings us right into the ring with wrestlers trying to please promoters and maintain their fan base by enduring ever more baroque and painful beatings, gougings and stabbings.
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