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  • It is a hard-to-watch 2 1/2 hours, and I find it dubious to suggest that this one will have much of an awards-season run.

    Box Office: Zack & Miri Rebounds with $10.6M For #2 | /Film 2008

  • And the acclaimed actor's highly public breakdown, including a hard-to-watch appearance on "The Late Show With David Letterman" early last year, was all part of a two-year-long performance.

    Joaquin Phoenix: A movie critic's take 2010

  • It is a hard-to-watch 2 1/2 hours, and I find it dubious to suggest that this one will have much of an awards season run.

    Friday Box Office: Zack and Miri Make A Box Office Miss | /Film 2008

  • The film contained hard-to-watch footage of the war that took the lives of two-to-three million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans -- a very painful reminder.

    Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War 2009

  • How many political campaigns have dissolved into horrific and hard-to-watch mud-slinging contests where candidates will do absolutely anything to get elected?

    The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009

  • And in the scrappy, low-budget venues Randy is reduced to playing, at least, there's plenty of very real blood flowing, especially during a hard-to-watch sequence in which the Ram faces off against a masochistic amateur who wallows in grisly self-mutilation with staples.

    The Wrestler Ed Howard 2009

  • Most of the more dramatically gripping moments take place in the hotel room, particularly in a hard-to-watch scene where the creepy Bebe forces an utterly reprehensible act of extortion on the two young women prior to performing the abortion.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Like the All-Star Game, in the hard-to-watch first period, the physicality was missing.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Perry committed one of the most egregious gaffes in American political history on Wednesday, uttering an "oops" when he forgot, for a hard-to-watch 53 seconds, that the Energy Department was the third of three agencies he would eliminate as president.

    CNN.com 2011

  • M. I.A.'s hard-to-watch new video has been banned by YouTube. com due to its graphic violence and scenes featuring the killing of young boys.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010

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