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- Compare Hail to the Thief, which can sound similar but is used to emphasize setting instead of make a direct political point.
Source: Protest Song -
Running wildly through a hail of gunfire only leaves scratches on her skin, and later in StrikerS Sound Stage X, she takes a direct hit from a Howitzer-style cannon that could destroy tanks in one shot, only for her to come out of the smoke with only cosmetic wounds.
Source: Immune to Bullets - Later still, she walks through a hail of bullets as though they were nothing more than driving rain; even a direct hit to the eye does little more than sting, and the eye isn't even bloodshot afterward.
Source: Webcomic / Alice Grove
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Hail and Direct. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/hail
Direct & Hail. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/hail>.
Hail or Direct. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/hail.
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