How could he put his daughters through such a heart-breaking ordeal?
This time the village postman is in for a back-breaking ordeal.
"Just abruptly, we had to end up staying with relatives and friends," said Ms. Sanders, a retired state worker who is black and who, at age 60, still has trouble recounting the ordeal without breaking into tears.
He is just a little boy, what has he done wrong?" The armed raiders, wielding guns and grenades, apparently subjected the family in Pakistan to a six-hour ordeal after breaking into the house in Jhelum.
I could never make it through the entire ordeal without breaking down and sobbing.
Being stuck in "immigration purgatory" is a strain that absorbs more and more of his time and threatens to break him, an ordeal that Mbue portrays in all its moral complexity.
What if, after his ordeal broke the fight out of him, Blake had not sat quietly at home, but had instead crawled into a bottle of gin and a spiral of depression and bitterness?
The couple, both world-class athletes (Renee was an Olympic level ice skater in Italy, Erik an NCAA champion soccer player) were physically and emotionally broken by the ordeal, what Judge Klein termed "a state of battle-fatigued demoralization".
The case came to light after 24-year-old student Liam Smyth, her date, shared his story online while crowdfunding to replace a window that was broken during the ordeal.
The staff of The Oregonian won in the breaking news reporting category for its coverage of the ordeal of the Kim family, which was lost for nearly nine days in Oregon.
Curtis later described the entire ordeal as, "a nightmare", saying, "Imagine someone breaking into your home, then being forced to sit on the couch while their lawyers file motions over how much stuff they can take".
