| No doubt your husband is an intellectual bruiser, but these are hardly Mensa-level topics. |
| This year I am going to spend Christmas Day slumped in front of the telly in an atrocious velour tracksuit. |
| Heavyweight boxers usually slump into an exhausted embrace after battering each other for 15 bruising rounds. |
| He assumed no international trade effects, an unchanged money supply and a constant velocity of circulation. |
| Having skied in such an ermine-lined resort, a return to the brutal shoving of Europe's lift lines could prove a bruising experience. |
| Those salty grilled shrimp marred an otherwise respectable dish of spaghettini alla Greco with a lively tomato sauce. |
