The fresh-faced Torres looks like easy pickings for bully-boy defenders but Antic is also sure he will answer the physical demands set by what is reputed to be the world's most physically demanding league.

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STEPHENS-MEDLEY: I have a boy so it's easy, but like you've said, gory is in and I have a strict rule.

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Using street slang would be an easy option in school, says a teenage boy.

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The boy was not humiliated, but it was easy to see that he felt he had failed.

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No longer easy on the eyes, but these wrinkles masterfully disguise The youthful boy below, who turned your way and saw Something he was not looking for, both a beginning and an end.

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Boy, these other journalists around us sure are taking it easy.

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But to a young American boy, Australia and its people -- your optimism, your easy-going ways, your irreverent sense of humor -- all felt so familiar.

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"Even though the boy was swimming between the red and yellow flags it's easy for someone, especially a child, to get out of their depth, " said RNLI lifeguard supervisor Adam Pitman.

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The filmmakers keep falling back on pathos and on the easy irony that the main character is, despite his extraordinary gifts, an ordinary boy with the normal emotional needs of any seven-year-old.

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In fact the words are fairly easy to decipher, so that the effect is of clarity and obscurity combined, like the boy's own state of mind.

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