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A couple of women do inhabit “Asphalt City”: the enthralling Katherine Waterston as Rutkovsky’s nettled ex wife, and Cross’s nameless love interest, whose naked body seems to receive more screen time than her face.

“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”

But if a catchy disparaging epithet for Trump that nettled his followers actually got traction, from the Democrats' point of view that would be OK.

But the jab nettled a greater insecurity: that pregnant women shouldn't be single.

The horseman’s tone and bearing nettled Taran, but he curbed his temper and bowed courteously.