Might her calvary be about to end?So go the rumours in the south-eastern department of Guaviare, an area of cattle ranches, coca plantations and jungle where all but the largest towns have been under FARC control for decades.
If this all sounds curiously like the twisted legalisms employed by Bill Clinton during his own impeachment calvary, perhaps that should be no surprise.
Italy's former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was protesting Christlike innocence (and describing his trials as "Calvary"); prosecutors were accusing him of skulduggery (the alleged bribery of his British lawyer, David Mills); judges were failing to give a clear verdict.
Garibaldi suffered enormously for the Italian cause but his tribulations were also heavily spun he had to incarnate the nation's "romantic agony", not just his own personal Calvary.
All land was owned by the sultan God's representative on earth but it was leased out to spahis (calvary corps members), who in return undertook to provide troops in proportion to the amount of land held.
This revelation of Hannah's own calvary is done in a single shot, with chillingly delicate understatement – making it the most horrific thing in the film.
German atrocities against Belgian civilians or the Austro-Hungarian mass slaughter of Serbs pale beside the Armenian calvary.
The human difficulty in attaining and sustaining canine happiness arouses an emotion close to pity, described as "a horror, an authentic horror at the unending calvary that is man's existence".
The dozen years remaining before his death were a calvary of alcoholism, depression, and poverty.
(That's him on the donkey in the "Entry Into Brussels" and nailed to the Cross in a drawing from 1886, "Calvary").
When he was a young boy, he had ridden in General Forrest's calvary in the Civil War.
