Sentence examples for bodily suffering from inspiring English sources
In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the soul.
Praying five times a day delivered transcendence, removing him from the material world of bodily suffering.
Visitors to the National Gallery in London have just been shown an exhibition that contained many Spanish sculptures which concentrated on bodily suffering.
The myth of Uncle Tom portrays the bodily suffering of blacks, which serves as a sign of their virtue and elicits white sympathy.
He spent his spare time visiting wounded and dying soldiers in the Washington hospitals, spending his scanty salary on small gifts for Confederate and Unionist soldiers alike and offering his usual "cheer and magnetism" to try to alleviate some of the mental depression and bodily suffering he saw in the wards.
His condition was, in the end, confirmed by means of a horrible form of torture, called the "vigil" because, in addition to the bodily suffering that was inflicted, victims were also subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation.
Gu was afraid of her son being kidnapped and killed [or] suffering bodily harm.
Some have suggested that 'symptom pools' could be seen as a range of symptom categories that are available to legitimately designate bodily changes or suffering at any given time in any given culture [ 39].
In general, in Anglo-American law, one may kill an assailant when the killer reasonably believes that he is in imminent peril of losing his life or of suffering serious bodily injury and that killing the assailant is necessary to avoid imminent peril.
"However, someone who claims self-defense must honestly and reasonably believe that he is in imminent danger of either losing his life or suffering great bodily harm, and that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent that harm.
Police in the central Florida town of Sanford initially declined to arrest Zimmerman, citing Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force when they believe they are in danger of getting killed or suffering great bodily harm.
