From that moment on, life is not only an outward struggle between Dennis's video game habit and his parents' dream that he'll become a gastroenterologist, but also a struggle within Dennis between how to create a happy life and a meaningful one.
The drama is an outward struggle between ideologies, between conservatism and sensuality, between Christian orthodoxy and pagan abandon – represented, respectively, by the church and the character of the shepherd, who introduces a world of temptation and pantheistic seduction into King Roger's court.
But Islam considers the inward struggle toward God inseparable from the outward struggle for the welfare of humanity.
In many ways, the outward and inward struggles of black men appear to reflect where the nation is on its journey toward racial equality -- unquestionably further along and, yet, at risk of moving backward.
The National Stadium reaffirms architecture's civilizing role in a nation that, despite its outward confidence, is struggling to forge a new identity out of a maelstrom of inner conflict.
That was a quote and a very important conclusion that grew out of several days of outward and inner struggle of a group of very lofty thinkers, who initially focused their energies on trying to resolve the China and Tibet "problem" while gathered at a meeting with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, home to the exiled Tibetan Leader.
There are suggestions of Anna's outward control and inward struggle in Lucy Bromilow's rigid posture and darting eyes, but too many of her motivations remain unknown.
It is a sign she is now healthy, with few outward traces of her struggle to live.
And the NRM, despite its outward show of support, is struggling with internal power struggles.
Once a woman is pregnant or once a child is born there are no outward signs signifying prior fertility struggles or past miscarriages.
As if to be caught, saliva cementing itself into the furrows of his deeply lined face, were somehow the ultimate humiliation, rather than what it is: the outward manifestation of the inner struggle Nolte has been embarked on all his life.
