From the beginning, the silent cinema was an art devoted to physical risk and to primitive passions, to rage, lust, ambition, and obsession (silence made emotions more extreme in many ways), and it produced obsession in its huge audience.

NEWYORKER: The Artists

We need to move beyond entrenched and extreme positions to find ways in which we can be heard by one another, and in which we can accept and respect (and even value) difference.

BBC: Mother and child

The most extreme and, in some ways, the most attractive option would be temporarily to nationalise the banks.

ECONOMIST: Japan's banks

All of them, in different ways, take extreme urban situations as their subject.

ECONOMIST: The absurdist art of a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist

The Glaxo-SmithKline example may seem extreme, but in many ways was typical.

ECONOMIST: Sharing the limelight

"I think certainly people who watch Gordon Ramsay know that behavior is an extreme, but it can creep slowly into the ways the viewers react in real life, " she said.

CNN: Our unhealthy love of reality TV bullying

Bob Paxman, a former SAS soldier who founded the PTSD charity Talking 2 Minds, said people reacted in different ways to trauma and Fitzsimons' case was an extreme one.

BBC: War horrors 'made our Danny ill'

The way they thrive in these extreme situations, after all, is by being able to transform substances in ways that most life forms can't.

FORBES

"Our established ways of assessing the benefits and risks of Glybera were challenged by the extreme rarity of the condition and also by uncertainties associated with data provided, " he said.

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