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It’s the humans, though, that you’ll remember from the ground up: Adams’ camera-friendly energy and hard-won serenity; Keoghan’s cockeyed warmth, just this side of menacing; Rogowski’s strange, commanding woundedness.

Perhaps these fires burn in part because the Northeast does not yet have a grim and hard-won culture of fire safety.

We saw his extremist judicial appointees strip away hard-won reproductive rights and voting rights that Americans broadly support.

The seduction of isolation battles with the craving to be held and seen in all their pain, all their darkness, all their hard-won familiarity with the underworlds that most souls spend their entire lives trying to escape.

Davenport-Conway, 58, fears Trump will roll back hard-won rights for women and LGBTQ+ people.