THIS is all a plot, designed to make Red Sox fans suffer even more exquisitely.

The faces of the sailors were blue-gray; they were afflicted with sea-cuts and sea-boils, and suffered exquisitely.

At its center is a rare beauty who loves purely, suffers exquisitely and poses for many ravishing close-ups before this tale is over.

I had not chosen this immobile stance consciouslythe fact of the matter was that I was suffering exquisitely from the torment of renewed circulation.

He twisted and turned in these flames, not dying but suffering exquisitely.

That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no one ever knew but I. How much I suffered, it is, as I have said already, utterly beyond my power to tell.

Suffering exquisitely, she is banished from the factory run by the newly respectable Valjean, and then sinks into sickness and prostitution.

Ms. Thurman suffers exquisitely as Fantine, sinking into wretchedness in the most photogenic way imaginable.

This is sturdy storytelling, with Liam Neeson (left) bringing physical authority and profound decency to the role of Jean Valjean, Geoffrey Rush as the driven Inspector Javert and Uma Thurman, with a photogenic pallor and suffering exquisitely, as the sickly Fantine.