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They face life in varied ways — some nerveracked and tense, some graceful and ironic, some lusty and ruthless, some shadowed and mysterious, some bitter and defiant — but unquestionably they all face it, with scant truckling to any public thirsting for spurious joy and the conventional happy ending.
Source: wiktionary
The men grew nerveracked and hysterical, after months of having every wish gratified and of being unable to imagine anything — except freedom — which was not instantly provided.
Source: wiktionary
One problem for this biographer is that the dramatic climax of his life, which throws a romantic light even on what was tedious and nerveracked in his past, may make him seem too remarkable: unique as no man is, instead of unique as all men are.
Source: wiktionary
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