Bangladesh slumped to 40-4 next over when Harmison struck, cramping Rajin Saleh with a bestial riser that was gloved high to the keeper.

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If Ms Williams does not intend to induce human horror at a pending bestial Armageddon, she at least invokes a future of earthly loneliness, where animals appear only as ceramic-hen butter dishes and endangered-species elastoplasts.

ECONOMIST: American fiction (2)

Ryan Gosling is a touch too sympathetic for the freeze-dried, laconic Driver whom we follow in the first half, and, once the mood is fractured and he starts to dish out bestial beatings, that stillness is badly devalued.

NEWYORKER: Road Kill

The fact is that Odysseus is befriended by gods who want him, in the end, to succeed, in order that he may return home to his beloved wife Penelope, so long neglected, and surrounded by such a crowd of baying, bestial suitors.

ECONOMIST: Homer

Another Hawksmoor design, for Christ Church, Spitalfields, may be said to rank higher for the bestial power of its facade and macabre associations. (It was built over a burial pit for plague victims.) But the drama of exterior and interior spaces at St.

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