"I haven't figured out how to write as myself," Paul says at one point, and as he chafes against the requirements of his job and the foul corruption of his environment, he is also undergoing the testing ordeal that will ultimately give him a voice and a vocation.
But unlike most restaurants, Faustina has not had the luxury — or the patience-testing ordeal — of a slow build played out across months of meticulous planning, financial consultations and menu tinkering.
We succumbed, and off he went each week to two tutors, one for English, one for math -- preparing to submit himself to the tests ordeal not once but twice this spring.
Valentine's Day was to the junior set of East Cleveland, Ohio, what the Tuesday after the first Monday in November has been, of late, to the Republicans--a time of trial and testing, an ordeal by majority vote, an implacable measuring of proud boasts and fond hopes..
Earlier in the tour, the nightly reading felt like an ordeal, then a hurdle, then a testing routine.
Reenacting the faith-testing ordeals of Ibrahim Abrahamm, the Biblical founder of monotheism) and his family, Muslims believe that an "accepted Hajj" will cleanse them of all their sins.
The ceremony consists in a public flogging named "Sharo," a test of manhood: all youths must pass this ordeal without flinching to be considered as adults and eligible to get married (Adeola 2014).
Then, to see whether more steps were warranted, he ordered a thallium stress test — a four-hour ordeal.
Campbell was the first to identify a structure that most epic stories of heroes tend to follow a hero is called to an adventure, encounters tests and ordeals, and is transformed by the experience.
During his test-taking ordeal he worked in several law-related jobs, including terms as a law clerk for the cities of Los Angeles and Compton.
We learn quite a lot about that test: the ordeals of training, the genealogy of the "Teams," the lore and legends that have grown up around this elite community.
