Word: ordeal
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...unselected, and Franzen was cast in some places as the world's dumbest whiner. What was his problem? You get a glimpse of it in an essay describing the tortured afternoon last year when an Oprah film crew prodded him into a contrived visit to his childhood home. That ordeal by television caused him to break out in an itchy rash. But he suffers even more from remorse for attempting a bit of that performance--he refused to actually go in--at a place so full of painful memory...
...main course arrives, all I can do is attempt a few cursory bites just for show. And in a tiny, 20-seat restaurant like this one, where the kitchen overflows into the dining room and there’s only one cook and one waiter, this can be an ordeal...
...women in their 30s relish the ordeal of dating, but Jennifer Lopez, 33, appears to have a particular aversion to the practice. Her relationship history suggests that she prefers to experience the getting-to-know-you phase of courtship after the wedding. Her first two marriages took place within months of a first date; neither made it to a second anniversary. Now it appears she's ready to try again, this time with someone her fans, at least, don't have to be introduced to. Though her divorce from backup dancer and second husband Cris Judd will not be final...
...Bush, though, raising the kind of money needed to launch a political campaign that could allow him to make America proud was a much less complicated ordeal than for the unconnected young Coughlin. Fundraising is undeniably a matter crucial to running a campaign. In the last presidential election, Bush raised nearly $100 million, and Gore raised about half that sum, according to Federal Election Commission receipts...
...that supportive tone here in Europe has done so much to sustain me through a troubled time. When I left the U.S. to study at Oxford just over a year ago, I was freshly traumatized by the national ordeal we all had endured just a couple of weeks before. Leaving friends and family to travel far from home is always tough, but that trip was all the tougher when I knew that my loved ones were living under the cloud of fear and confusion that the terrorists had imposed...