Word: ordeal
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...thieves (yes, a Jew) is seen as a sympathetic figure for his genuine remorse. Just as many Jews were depicted in the film as wishing for Jesus’s death, many were sympathetic to him, simply from the standpoint of watching a man endure a horrible ordeal. Through most of the film, the characters beating him were not Jewish, but Roman. Suggesting that the film makes any commentary on “the Jews” as a group is absurd...
...talking with Morris, you get a genuine sense that he has truly learned something from his ordeal. He is a better man for it and, thanks to his time in Vancouver and Saginaw, a better hockey coach, as well...
...consequence, today we are not as far from the time of Eleanor Roosevelt, when for women, sex was “an ordeal to be endured,” as we now imagine. The most famous survey of sexuality, the Kinsey report of the 1950s, recorded that 36 percent of women in their 20s and 15 percent of women in their 30s or older had never reached orgasm. More recent studies more or less confirm these findings, with only slightly lower numbers of women left in the orgasmic dark...
When he was acquitted by a Middlesex Superior Court, it seemed that Zedginidze’s ordeal had reached its terminus. He had never completed his education degree, and this—it would follow—was a ripe time to be allowed back in the country and the GSE. But because of Harvard’s unfailingly mediocre judicial boards, Zedginidze’s petition has been sent, as his lawyer has noted, “into a black hole.” He has received no response and will in any case not receive an open hearing...
...slave." At moments like this we sense the sadness of the stories we will never read, the stories of those who lived as slaves and died that way. Jacobs, Tubman and Nazer are miraculous exceptions, blessed with the iron will, steely intellect and golden luck required to survive an ordeal that spared only the truly indomitable. The lives of most of their fellow sufferers will remain unwritten...