He described enduring episodes of torture, threats by captors to go to his house and rape his wife, and daily horrors like the suicide of a young prisoner who electrocuted himself with wires from a hot plate after being raped by soldiers.
If anything, Rafael Nadal put the point more succinctly in the early hours of the morning here when he described enduring his seventh successive loss against Novak Djokovic as "the toughest match I ever played", adding in his charming version of English: "You look around and you see the watch, five hours, four hours, three hours, finally five hours 53.
At the age of nine, he says, a car struck him, sending him face first into the pavement, and he describes enduring countless blows in the boxing ring as a teenager.
In her statement, she described enduring flashbacks, nightmares and paranoia.
And a female official at Columbia University asked student Emma Sulkowicz how the painful nonconsensual sex act she described enduring was "possible".
In the latest posting to her blog on Wednesday, Sunderland described enduring "a rough few days".
Quinlan, has helped shoot 20 episodes of the series so far, shared a photo of a note from the producers that described "enduring 55 straight nights" in production.
This argument resonated with the feelings expressed by our participants, some of whom described enduring long delays before being referred to a specialist.
In a video testimonial, Jason Porter, a thirty-three-year-old former inmate, describes enduring thirty hours during which sewage floated freely on the jail's floors and "all over the walls, the cells, the ceilings".
Speaking in piquantly accented English that unspooled in long, coiling sentences and sometimes grappling with unfamiliar colloquialisms, he described his enduring affection for a musical format that, he said, some composers view as a limiting anachronism.
But, he added, better educated executives and filmmakers would waste less money, and support for the new center would ultimately boost the stature of film at other universities, notwithstanding what he described as an enduring bias against cinema as being "not qualified to sit in the pantheon" of great arts.
