The ordeal faced by sailors, rowers and canoeists is all too real, but the symbolism is perfect.
Again, a visit to the bank manager is different in Harpin-world to the ordeal faced by ordinary mortals begging to increase their overdraft.
But Mr. Oïda, a longtime associate of Peter Brook, makes a fatal error as the Pilgrim, having escaped from his Vanity Fair ordeal, faces his final challenge, crossing a treacherous river.
As a result, the twins and their parents, from Walthamstow, north-east London, will be spared the ordeal faced by an estimated 100,000 children during today's National Offer Day when they find out they do not have a place at their first-choice school.
It also features a horrific segment on police racism, as well as the ordeals faced by an interracial couple.
At the same time, many who opposed the war can nonetheless support the man because of his personal ordeal, without facing the intellectual complications of directly facing the issues of the war itself.
It also emerged that a hospital mortuary technician had been off work ill as a result of the ordeal and faces disciplinary charges.
On the air, reported the Times of India, "Sania also talked about the ordeal they faced — the controversies surrounding their marriage — and how constant surveillance by the media almost took a toll on their personal life".
Still, the ordeal he faced over five years ago pales in comparison to what currently awaits activists and journalists who fall into the clutches of Iran's justice system, he says.
In a 2015 Senate hearing, Alabama resident Judy Rivers described the harrowing ordeal she faced after she was added to the DMF in 2008.
