God and his long, punishing fingernails..
Long, punishing runs, involving early mornings and carefully plotted routes, are his way of acclimating himself.
God and his long, punishing fingernails... Before Caleb was two and a half, Noah said goodbye to the woman again.
The ample self-confidence that Chris Christie displays in governing New Jersey apparently extends to the long, punishing, unpredictable pursuit of the presidency.
For the playoffs, though, the Packers channeled their inner Lambeaus and Lombardis, grinding out long, punishing drives to keep Michael Vick's quick-strike Philadelphia offense off the field and surprising even Rodgers.
It's no coincidence that so many of his novels have as their set pieces long, punishing treks through unforgiving country with diminishing provisions, his characters exhausted and despondent but forcing themselves to slog on.
But still, in the glorious sunlight at the end of this long, punishing winter, after the economic storms of the past year, in the celebration of rebirth on Easter weekend, there was something larger than this 11-block-long, 0.2-square-mile community in the ad-hoc rescue plan that will keep Merola's in business.
The fans continue to return, even though Mattioli's two-and-a-half-mile track is a peculiar triangle instead of an oval, and even though the races at Pocono are long, punishing events that drivers do not seem to like much.
His parents, who moved there when he was 6, had little formal education and worked long, punishing shifts at a chicken processing plant to support their seven children.
