The base is now a soccer field, where Afghan boys play a wolfish style of football.

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Sarwat looked down at the girl with a wolfish grin, almost spoke, then turned to her father.

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From one of them, a big wolfish dog ran out with a great display of barking and snarling.

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But in the process of becoming a global brand Gervais has revealed a less appealing side snarky, wolfish, and mean.

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In keeping with wolfish tradition, it's an agonizing process, which may account for the creature's ill temper upon becoming fully lupine: He doesn't kill to feed any need besides bloodlust, and his eviscerations are graphic, grotesque and largely unnecessary although when Mr. Del Toro is seen chowing down on some villager's liver, it may be intended as an homage to his somnambulistic co-star Mr. Hopkins (hold the fava beans).

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