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...In the second half Sammy retreats into sullen anger — hard to play and hard to like....
...Emma Raducanu, the top British women’s player, was knocked out in round two while Serena Williams, returning from a year away from tennis, lost in round one....
...Draped in the Emcee’s jacket, face bruised, eyes deadened, she begins sullen and cynical and ends in a searing howl of rage and despair....
...My sullen aggression was probably little noticed . . . the more aggressive you were, the better — as long as you made money.”...
...Evie and her friend, the sullen Connie, spend their time beautifying themselves, or mooning over Connie’s older brother and his friends....
...Gough rolls from juddering detox through sullen denial to resigned acceptance. She’s raw, hostile, volatile and painfully human....
...“I’m very impressed,” says Emma Parkes, a manager at the store. “He’s much more laid back than I’d expected.”...
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