Sentences with phrase «ordeal like»

Although you hope to never have to go through an ordeal like we did, it was wonderful to have such a competent and knowledgeable team advocating for us.

But you don't have to endure an ordeal like Shannon's.

I am touched by your story and feel that even though I did not walk the same road as you it's with an enormous amount of determination that one can overcome a horrible ordeal like that and even find courage to share it.I am glad you started healing after breastfeeding..

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For many consumers, it was a prime example of what it's like to deal with a call centre, reinforcing the stereotype of a sales or customer - service version of Henry Ford's assembly line: low - skilled cubicle cattle housed in giant Orwellian workrooms, with a script or a supervisor, turning the simplest request into a maddening ordeal.

Dan, I feel like on this show, we've talked several times about these long, drawn - out ordeals.

Without a service like Curalate, Pinterest contests are a complicated ordeal; Gupta says they are broken.

I feel like this is being made into a huge ordeal over something that is pretty standard — you can't kick someone out of a group because they are gay.

For people who don't like music, or whose musical ability has never been stretched by real listening, this is not an ordeal.

that sounds like an ordeal.

It was like being swallowed alive by a dragon but his belly could not digest me so he spat me out back to my freedom but I had to suffer the ordeal for three long months.

The general confession he had to make before his conditional baptism turned out to be a humiliating ordeal («It was like a life photographed as it came to mind, without any order, full of gaps, giving at best a general impression,» he recalls in Journey Without Maps).

I would like to turn the question to you: how would you react if those t - shirts thanked Allah for getting them through their ordeal?

I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.

The roasted veggies were bursting with flavor and made the salad feel like a fancy orchestrated restaurant dish versus the easy toss - and - serve sort of ordeal it actually was.

Cooking dinner on weeknights can be a rushed, tiresome ordeal whereas making meals for the week on a Sunday afternoon can take on an almost zen - like quality.

sounds like a real ordeal!

But the battle to win under those conditions was an ordeal he didn't feel like repeating.

Admittedly, I thought he would have been good depth but it sounds like the Taxi ordeal wasn't an isolated incident.

Those people deserve some sympathy, because most sports fans never have to go through an ordeal exactly like this one.

They speak about George like he suffered a through a horrible ordeal, which he had.

Because he is entitled and he does want out and the reaction of his teammates after this ordeal tells me that he may not be liked to being with.

It is not so much a skull anymore as it is a large bucket in which names, places and random golf thoughts have been jumbled like so many range balls: yips, chips, birdies, eagles, Eales (Paul), Els (Ernie), Jeff Gove, Davis Love, Rocky Thompson, Rocco Mediate, rye grass, Sawgrass, flagsticks, flat sticks, fairway woods, Tiger Woods, what I would not give to be out of this god - forsaken room; Aoki, Azinger, and my ordeal had barely begun.

I read about breastfeeding, and I felt like I was mostly prepared, or as prepared as a person could be for the ordeal of feeding another human being with your own body.

You can feel like this at times but do not make it an everyday ordeal.

Then it became an all but night time ordeal — I was terrified of the «overnight» horror stories I had begun reading and really did nt feel like I knew enough about this whole cloth diapering thing to move forward in confidence.

Growing and birthing a human is a huge ordeal, and after it's over you don't go back to feeling «normal» right away (or ever, if I feel like being super honest right now.).

«It is extremely insensitive and, in fact, inhumane for Falana and his sponsors to level false accusations against someone like Dr Okonjo - Iweala who went through this kind of searing personal ordeal for her principled fight against corruption.

People have walked away from the job once they saw what the vetting ordeal was going to look like.

This ordeal can often result in other health problems — like heart disease or other types of cancer — that arise years later.

Visiting vendors, meeting your planner, shopping, and other activities might seem like it will take a short period of time but can turn into day - long ordeals.

And so we started digging in a little bit better and found out that she had this huge ordeal with her brother during the holiday season and that had sort of left her in almost like a post-traumatic hypersensitive adrenal burnout state and once we got to work through some of that emotional trauma, she felt immediately better by the end of the call, and then we realized — okay, we're still going to tweak the supplements a little bit but here's an emotional thing that was the white elephant in the room and when you look at the symptoms and you look at the protocol, something didn't add up and then we kinda dug deeper.

I live in the Midwest, Minnesota to be exact and winters can seem like a 6 month ordeal.

Cancer is no laughing matter, so please remember comments like «save the tata's» are insensitive to those going through this ordeal.

Great article and such an interesting read, although it sounds like quite an ordeal!

I really liked it too, It's just a sticking point with me, that the storyline; Wikus and his ordeal is the focal point of the film, and all the buzz, the trailers (which has doco - like scenes that were NOT in the film) and the synopsis, initially did not mention any of it.

Of course that may sound like an un-sexy ordeal and very French.

But all this is revealed, like everything else, in a flashback from the central scene: the newlyweds» bedroom, where Edward and Florence endure their excruciating ordeal.

Even though there isn't some massive, convoluted plot, the film's effectiveness lies in its simplicity and the mundane ordeal of putting a loved one to rest, and how it could feel like a kingdom you have built has just crumbled.

What should be an enjoyable journey ends up feeling like a chore, requiring much patience throughout the 25 - 30 hour ordeal.

As I watched the film, I really wanted to like it, but it never made me laugh out loud, and after an hour, it became an ordeal to watch.

The result instead is an uninvolving, 140 - minute ordeal, with an unkempt Gerard Butler as the detective looking like he's auditioning to play Steve Bannon.

For all the urgency of the posse's mission, it's a journey of days through the desert and the characters fill the time with defining personalities: the easy - going affability of Sheriff Hunt that becomes sharpened by the focus of tracking the raiding party, the garrulous way that Chicory talks, like a lonely old man trying to be useful («It's the opinion of the back - up deputy that...»), the arrogance and urbane language of the educated townsman whose character recalls the gamblers of classic westerns but whose backstory reveals different tale, the resolute determination of the cowboy husband who will not shirk his duty despite the crippling ordeal.

Like most things you pick up, figuring out what it's used for is often the hardest part of the entire ordeal.

That sounds like a gut - wrenching ordeal, especially if you know the huge sacrifice involved (and there has been no way of avoiding that information in Oscar season jokes and discussions), and it is indeed challenging to live it even vicariously from the comfort of your couch.

I liked the little additions they added, specifically the extra side thrown in with the Murphy family, seeing how this whole ordeal had affected them.

For many of these awards hopefuls, the ordeal becomes a slog; as an Oscar nominee once put it to us, it's like riding a roller coaster, which sounds great until you have to spend months doing it.

I would like to know about the transmission ordeal??? When somethind like that happens does your employer pay you the flat rate time or time you have into it?

He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation.

, it sounds like you've had to go through quite the ordeal to have that conversion done.

Student loans may seem like an expensive and complicated ordeal that continues to haunt you after graduation.