As a result, several British citizens have suffered scarifying legal misadventures in, among other places, Greece.

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Did Christie face similar penalties had he been anything less than blunt and even scarifying?

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Like so many war movies before it, "Starship Troopers" buys into its subject, willy-nilly, with the power of its pounding, scarifying narrative and the buggy brilliance of its special effects.

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