The deep structural flaws in monetary union, which were always there for those not starry-eyed about "the Project", have been brutally exposed.
They were camped just half a day's march from Gnulp Landing, once a rich fishing and trading city, but these days an outpost brutally exposed to enemy raids.
The police photographs taken just a few hours later are shocking, and even more so in comparison to the earlier pictures: Levin's battered body is brutally exposed, the clothing up around her neck, the body crumpled and broken.
The city's dark secrets are brutally exposed, but it turns out to be a small part of a complex world.
Yet whose private life, one wonders, has been more brutally exposed in all this?
Mr. McLean has written his share of jazz masterpieces as well, and his improvisations are often brutally exposed, the harmonic challenges he presents placed on a table for everyone to see.
Kelvin's Cairn wasn't a high mountain, but the top third was perpetually covered with deep snow and brutally exposed to the icy wind that gave this land its name.
England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
The irrelevance of the fate of one down-at-the-heels Weltbummler in the giant scheme of things is hilariously, brutally exposed.