Entire sections are still jagged cityscapes of grey rubble and gaping ruins.

We both had the same teeth: jagged and growing inward, with dark cavernous gaps between them.

In De Oliveira’s performance of Cruz, she effortlessly moves between the soft and hard, between deep, layered silences and the unleashing of rough, jagged, loose dialogue.

Instead, vascular dementia began to take her down precipitously, mentally and physically, in jagged, irregular steps.

Imagine running your fingers over the jagged grey marble from which two gladiatrices were hewn thousands of years ago.