Sentence examples for arduous ordeal from inspiring English sources

"It was an arduous ordeal for her".

In "Vanitystarts@home," Mr. Wilson, sitting on the floor, pushed himself laboriously forward with his arms, as if undergoing an arduous ordeal on a spiritual quest.

Sensing that this was not going to be the most arduous ordeal of the season, the Tigers pressed the entertainment button.

DHS: The new publication of your book seems to be the culmination of a long arduous ordeal.

Just haul ass!" Pushkin is also famous for "Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters," a poem that damns "Sanctimonious Censorship" and, as Erofeyev reminds us, describes a culture of women missing their sex organs: "The Tsar dispatches his heralds in search of them and after arduous ordeals they are recovered".

You'd be better off going with any of the week's re-releases, beginning with – in keeping with the week's theme of arduous physical ordeals – Ealing Studios' stern but strangely rousing Scott of the Antarctic (Studiocanal, U).

She seems to have regarded the exercise as a sort of mental boot camp — an arduous but necessary ordeal if she hoped to be a person of character and courage.

It's most often inextricably linked with ordeals and arduous tests, showing us that it's almost impossible to be passionate about a quest without having to struggle on our journey toward it.

Every time I lit a new joint, the impending ordeal seemed all the more arduous.

Going to my favorite Asian food market suddenly has turned into another arduous chore: Once a 30 minute event, it has become a two-hour ordeal, with bags in hands, and bus transfers.

The book is haunted by Rieff's anxiety that Sontag may have undergone an arduous treatment that was almost certain to fail, and in doing so put herself through an unnecessary ordeal.