That makes the blows seem all the harder, and Diana's successes all the sweeter.

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Ms. Reuben's identification with her "Lincoln" character makes her triumph all the sweeter.

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The slowing economy makes the convention's opening all the sweeter for hotel owners.

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It must have been all the sweeter for him because after Labour's 1997 landslide after he was unceremoniously dumped by Tony Blair from his post as a junior spokesperson on Welsh affairs.

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Floating beneath them was an almost illicit pleasure--like I was hiding out from the world, in a place no one would even think to look--made all the sweeter for the contrast with the structure's history.

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It was softer and sweeter and all the more cutting for that.

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