All this may add pungency to the Senate hearings on campaign finance, which resume after Labour Day.

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The food does not assault the senses with the typical heat and pungency of traditional Korean dishes.

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Debbie and her husband, Pete (Paul Rudd), a Los Angeles couple with two daughters, are hitting early middle age, and Apatow has arranged their discontents (with themselves, with each other, with their parents) into a generous and vibrant series of confrontations and fights, all garnished with wisecracks of startling pungency.

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