Sentence examples for barely endure from inspiring English sources

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In "Una Vita" and "Senilità" the mistress is a bitch; the death in the family is a nightmare; the hero can barely endure his self-contempt.

Even after Mr. Obama named Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state, seemingly binding the wounds from their hard-fought 2008 primary campaign, the book says, he still could barely endure spending much time with the often-exhausting Bill Clinton.

Brennan can barely endure him but knows she must work with him to try to solve the case.

Quotes from Rilke would probably not be to his taste, but the Duino Elegies provide yet another touchstone for "True Detective": "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure / and we admire it so because it calmly disdains / to destroy us.

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She who had endured his guff for 67 years and who, I thought, barely endured him.

As Putin recounts in a book-length interview called "Ot Pervogo Litsa" ("First Person"), one of his grandfathers was a cook for both Lenin and Stalin at a dacha compound outside Moscow, and his family barely endured the nine-hundred-day Siege of Leningrad, during the Second World War.

We'd all barely endured the daze she wandered around in for a year while she was getting craniosacral work done and contributing nothing to the cooking, because she'd turned to some bizarre raw vegetable cleansing diet.

Just endure.

That's not far off base, but, of course, the writer's job is to say those things that appear unsayable, to cloak with language those volatile experiences that seem barely able to endure it.

And even if one of them suddenlypressed me against his heart, I would perishin the embrace of his stronger existence.For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure and are awedbecause it serenely disdains to annihilate us.Each single angel is terrifying.Rilke saw his particular angel as strong, still, radiant, a pure divider "between the Here and There".

At the onset of the First Elegy, Rilke describes this frightened experience, defining beauty as "... nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us".. Rilke depicted this infinite, transcendental beauty with the symbol of angels.

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