Word: journeying
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...hard to decide whether self-awareness can redeem Shyamalan’s lack of originality; after all, as mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, all epics follow the same progression along their “Hero’s Journey.” But only diving headlong into this bedtime story can save you from a feeling...
...been severed in multiple places by massive air bombs that gouge out yawning craters, making for a lengthy and terrifying experience for anyone brave or desperate enough to travel; one new patient had spent eight hours on the road, shuttled by eight separate vehicles, to reach the hospital, a journey that under normal circumstances would take only 20 minutes...
...UNIFIL convoy of armored personnel carriers had inched their way up a heavily cratered coastal road in an attempt to reach Tyre to provide relief supplies to the stranded families of the force's civilian staff. The troops, however, were forced to abandon their APCs halfway into their journey because of Israeli shelling of the road and instead spent the night in bomb shelters...
...After arriving in the morning, exhausted French soldiers sat in the shade beside their APCs, sipping water or catnapping while awaiting orders for the perilous return journey...
...story of Collins' journey to faith, a description of his evangelical belief and a wrenching examination of God and suffering through the story of his daughter's rape constitute a significant part of his book, resembling in some ways evangelical testimony more than previous scientific arguments for belief. But he also explains why, although he does not believe God is rationally provable, he thinks that natural phenomena - such as the development of conditions favoring life on earth in the face of incredible odds - point toward the divine...