Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy to learn your opinion (if I understood it rightly) according to which conversion rarely occurs instantaneously, but that pain and suffering are on its path. I was happy, because I myself have gone through a long and painful inner labour. I know that these pains and sufferings are the best I have experienced so far in my life and that they must have their reward, if not in the soothing quiet of faith, then at least in the awareness of the price I paid for them. The theory that God's Grace descends upon one, in the English clubs...
...Times quoted Thomson's recommendation that the U.S. de-escalate and "be ingenious and relentless in the pursuit of peace as we are in the infliction of pain...
...Elizabeth Allen takes her fame as stoically as she has taken the pain that has been her lifelong lot. One of 17 children of an Irish mother and a German immigrant tailor, she was born in North London with a double curvature of the spine and a clubfoot, got her nickname when, as a child, she insisted she was as much a queen as Elizabeth I. She became an atheist after her mother told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed...
...silk plaid skirt and a brown wool jacket, to a gold metallic gate of Heaven with a welcoming Christ within. It may also be prophetic, for Queen has become too crippled to lie flat. When she tries to doze sitting up, she is constantly awakened by spasms of pain. Since doctors were of no avail to her in her youth, she sees no reason to turn to them now, refuses all medication. Still, she plans to sew more pictures of her interpretations of the Bible. "If we can't sew, we'll write it down," she adds. Bridget...
Metaphysical Anxiety. Under the firm baton of New York City Opera Director Julius Rudel, the singers projected their parts with clarity and polish while threading their way through Ming Cho Lee's surrealistic settings. Mexican Tenor Salvador Novoa eloquently voiced the pain and weakness of the Duke, and statuesque Joanna Simon, as the courtesan, sang her seduction aria in a lustrous mezzo-soprano...