Sentence examples for ordeal to write from inspiring English sources

Although miserably apprehensive of his punishment, Defoe had spirit enough, while awaiting his ordeal, to write the audacious "Hymn To The Pillory" (1703); and this helped to turn the occasion into something of a triumph, with the pillory garlanded, the mob drinking his health, and the poem on sale in the streets.

In fact, he encouraged me to write about our ordeal.

Ms. Marker, who has started to write about their ordeal, says that after 10 years she is coming to terms with it emotionally and psychologically.

Mental imagery (picturing the trauma in your mind), visiting the place where the traumatic event happened, and encouraging sufferers to write about their ordeal are all common tools of this kind of therapy.

Three Oxford University students who say they were sexually assaulted are preparing to write about their harrowing ordeals for the first time, inspired by a fellow undergraduate who penned a defiant open letter to her attacker.

You can have nothing but awe-struck admiration for Ralston, who lived to write an account of his ordeal – although I confess my regard is slightly diminished by his calling the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

Just trying to write something down on a piece of paper is somewhat of an ordeal until you "figure it out" in your brain.

The RSC has been conspicuously silent about the whole ordeal, "I was told to write-up a report on this issue which I did.

The magazine's account of Mr. Achatz's reaction to his ordeal, written by D. T. Max, rings true to me.

"Being in prison is an ordeal to say the least, but the Security Housing Unit is an altogether different form of punishment," he wrote.

Kohl's cuttings are an ordeal to produce.