Sentences with phrase «ultimate wringer»

Four movies later, Jennifer Lawrence has been the unwavering anchor as Katniss, vividly hitting all the right emotions and actualizing the alternate fearlessness, fallibility, and trauma of a young woman who has been put through the ultimate wringer.

Katja is put through the ultimate wringer throughout the film, constantly veering between utter hopelessness and defiant anger; it would be easy to fall into the trap of portraying a woman suffering such unspeakable horrors by resorting to hysterics.