But when he told his parents that he wished to become a professional dancer, his father objected, arguing that a dancer's life was one of constant hardship.
Half an hour's drive down a dirt track from the nearest country road, in a valley on the fringes of Taliban territory, every day he sees dozens of cases like Mojabeen, a thin 19-year-old mother of three whose leopard-print dress beneath her burqa seems incongruous with her life of constant hardship.
This was approximately the 15th successive award won by Mad Max: Fury Road, and the directors were starting to worry that people might have preferred a fun film about some cool cars to their interminably worthy and hard-to-watch meditations on endless constant hardship.
His stories are almost as celebrated as his songs, and this romantic slice of Americana is perhaps the best of them, but it is, he insists, the "G-rated [PG] version" of events, which involved constant hardship and at least one jail spell.
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties.
Cruz's second novel explores the identity crisis of the Dominican diaspora through the story of the resilient Colón family, whose members move from a remote island village to New York, where constant hardships keep their dreams out of reach.
Some went insane from the constant hardships — dysentery and scurvy, ferocious storms alternating with stifling heat, tsetse flies, jiggas worms that produced crippling ulcers on their feet.
Protests against the government, many against economic reforms that Peruvians say have deepened their hardships, are a constant headache.
Both Fey and Moran evidently spent their childhoods in a constant state of mortification and weathered the hardships brought on by extreme nerdiness only to emerge in adulthood as wildly successful comic writers.
The family suffered hardship, with the threat of the workhouse a constant fear.
