I've also found in thinking about it, suffering over it, that something -- it's very painful and very difficult, but something very beautiful happens.
It is anthropomorphised, the object of a tender concern of which people have ceased to be recipients: is it sick or healthy, does it need an injection or a shot in the arm, is it suffering or slowing down?
We are told that he was "plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer", "a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own", skilful to "speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest"; "valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock".
Where once it seemed infinite in its bounty, it is suffering from overfishing and pollution.
Instead he looked more deeply and perhaps more honestly into life, finding in it much suffering and conflict but also finding the redeeming power of love.
Lowering the dose reduces allergy symptoms in some people, and in others it eliminates suffering altogether.
After thirteen years in power, it was suffering from exhaustion and sclerosis, as evidenced by the defensive and negative campaign that it fought.
He also funnelled money through Panama, fooling analysts into thinking that the company was booming when in fact it was suffering huge losses.
From at least 2010, Russia's formal military doctrine has articulated the concept of using nuclear weapons to "de-escalate" a crisis in which it was suffering conventional military loss.
Cynthia Carroll, the chief executive, talked up the company's pipeline of projects in Latin America, despite the delays it is suffering in getting planning and environmental permits at Minas Rio, a proposed iron-ore mine in Brazil.
