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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actual suffering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to real or genuine pain or distress experienced by an individual or group.
Example: "The documentary highlighted the actual suffering of those affected by the natural disaster."
Alternatives: "real pain" or "genuine distress".
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The real world was not composed of oscillating dialectical forces; it was composed of actual suffering people crushed between those forces.
The deification of Bukowski, and other tortured, inebriated artists of his ilk, is a task best undertaken by those who have not experienced actual suffering.
An AED, however, contains a request that was expressed in the past when the patient was still competent, and provides no information about the patient's actual suffering.
"That's just insensitivity to the actual suffering that some students suffer," he says.
Vulnerability expresses the potential to suffer the consequences of a hazard and not necessarily to experience the actual suffering itself; Meze-Hausken (2000) demonstrates that people in potentially hazardous circumstances or marginal regions can succeed in averting risks and coping with disaster events by developing a great variety of adaptation mechanisms.
To ring down the curtain on the story, not on the actual suffering.
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No one was more eloquent than Lincoln in describing the injustice of the institution of slavery; yet rarely did he dwell on the actual sufferings of America's four million enslaved blacks.
Western introspective paranoia about Ebola suddenly reaching our shores was competing with sympathy for the plight of the actual people suffering.
The problem, I imagined, is that the lofty philosophical questions of "what is art", "what is self-expression," "what is cinema" hover over images of actual people suffering.
But living through a fictional character is never as good as knowing actual joy or love, and never as bad as suffering actual pain or discrimination.
The actual Margaret Thatcher, reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's disease, has retired from public life.
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