| Instead he kisses her — hard and bruisingly — and then forces her onto the sofa where he starts to undress her. |
| Lowell's declamatory and often bruisingly rhetorical verse grew out of a tortured, manic life. |
| At the helm of the BCCI for over two decades, Mr Dalmiya was primarily responsible for making it into the highly commercial, politicised and bruisingly confrontational organisation it is today. |
| But in the bruisingly fast world of battered global computer companies, a formidable weight rests on the slender shoulders of this 39-year-old. |
| A few heavy blows caught me bruisingly in the face, and I quickly let go of the creature. |
| Harriet Harman, who was previously the most senior woman in the Labour Party, led the fight for women's equality in an often bruisingly upfront fashion. |
