Winter, deep dark winter, while the soil sleeps and animals hibernate, is something that I merely endure.
It connotes something bought rather than merely endured, and it shares the same syllabic beat as MasterCard, with all the potential to capitalize subliminally on its advertising.
But the Earth has not merely endured; it has lived.
Our relationship is enduring, not merely endured.
It is a story about those who merely endured during a time of social injustice, and that story is every bit as relevant as the struggles of The Freedom Riders or the indiviudual portraits of iconic characters such as Medgar Evers or Rosa Parks.
All lives, you might say, exist to be enjoyed and mourned, as well as merely endured.
Or have they just repeated and accumulated, and as Denise writes near the end of the book, merely endured?
It was a time of remarkable ferment and innovation, marked by what Jennings, who has a gift for the striking phrase, calls a belief that "society seemed like something to be invented, rather than merely endured".
Instead, politicians, soldiers and civilians claim that they merely endured a crise post-électorale.After his defeat at the ballot box in November 2010, President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave gracefully and retreated to his palace.
First merely endured by those in the Republican Party, with pained grimaces and faint bleats of reluctance, bare toleration passed quickly over into blind, partisan allegiance he's going to be the nominee, after all, and so is our boy.
Don't get excited, I haven't been up to anything grand or illicit, I have merely endured the appalling experience of residential relocation over the bank holiday weekend.
