From the October trip, the discussion turned to memories of childhood, and of familiar hardships.
Although Chiron faces the familiar hardships of his environment — poverty, drugs, crime and dispossession — Jenkins often turns those obstacles on their heads, seeing them through a far more complex lens than the usual one of dysfunction and despair.
Sor, one of the local scene's most recognised and respected artists, explained that young Tajiks were familiar with hardship, and art is a crucial way for them to express their frustrations.
Searching for the familiar ground of hardship, she exercises.
This semester, she stuffed her copy of "Great Expectations" with scribbled Post-it notes, parsing the book's strange words and strangely familiar themes: childhood hardship, heartbreak and redemption.
The prince is familiar with the hardship that many young people in Lesotho have to face.
I talk about how brave they must have been to leave the communities of their birth -- which were at least familiar despite the hardship, discrimination, and all-too-common violence they faced -- and come to a land where they didn't speak the language, didn't know the culture, and in many cases didn't know a soul.
SAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile — Mario Gómez is all too familiar with the hardships of prolonged confinement.
His first objective was to visit the Bolivian highlands, where he hoped to become familiar with the hardships experienced by the Aymara people.
Younger Muscovites, who are less familiar with the hardships of the past and are as comfortable with Nokia and Pizza Hut as their peers in suburban New Jersey, seem far less forgiving.
IT SOUNDS like a familiar American fable of hardship and redemption.
