Sentences with phrase «agonizing process of»

I am grateful for the sometimes agonizing process of making this place home.

You have probably heard about the slow and agonizing process of trying to find a health insurance policy on Alaska's newly minted exchange.

Not simple is the agonizing process of rebuilding.

Yet 50/50 remains a funny, thoughtful film, less about surviving cancer than about the agonizing process of growing up.

Luke, at 6 months, is still waking up every two or three hours, so my husband and I have agreed to begin the agonizing process of sleep training.

Why should the individual undertake the agonizing process of facing and appropriating the otherness within himself, the multiplicity which he is, if the Godhead himself is understood and imaged as beyond such courageous integration of internal polarities?

The «things of the Lord» ennoble us, true, but often only after an agonizing process of conformity to his purposes, which are not our own.

They saw three possible scenarios: Harvester would reduce its capital commitment to SRC, causing the plant to deteriorate in an agonizing process of layoffs and cutbacks; the plant would be closed; or the plant would be sold.

Not exact matches

All this is not to suggest that one must simply sit and wait passively until the alcoholic goes through the agonizing process — to all concerned — of reaching bottom.

Taking the way of the cross is a real, agonizing process, a task so overwhelming that eventually there is no choice anymore.

(Notice I didn't tell you to go through the agonizing and stupid process of peeling them.

After their book is written and editors sign off on the final rewrite, authors often turn their attention to what will become one of their most agonizing tasks in the entire process — deciding on a book cover design.

Spending day after day by yourself, creating and revising, chopping and agonizing over the perfect turn of phrase, it's easy to get lost in the process and forget that you're actually making progress.

I am surprised and confused by the large number of writers who have told me that they are considering self - publication because it is «easier» than engaging in the agonizing, and often futile, process of finding literary representation.

So I few of my writing friends are in the process of changing agents and agonizing over who to approach.

For [Working Group 2 in 2001 and 2007], this was an agonizing, frustrating process, as every sentence had to be wordsmithed on a screen in front of representatives of more than 100 governments, falling farther and farther beyond a realistic schedule by the hour.

«Phone records — as I found out the hard way — they're tough to get [and] it's an agonizing process,» says Ben Lieberman of New Castle, N.Y., whose 19 - year - old son was killed in a car crash in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, in 2011.

For some, deciding whether or not to attend college can be an agonizing, drawn - out process with many changes of heart — but that wasn't the case for Prior.

They will tell you that the creative process is awesome, messy, agonizing, joyous, elusive, fun, risky, maddening, invigorating, mysterious, and all of these at once.

Whether you're helping someone buy or sell a home, the closing period of the real estate journey can be the most agonizing part of the entire process.