Sentence examples for painful initiation from inspiring English sources

And a painful initiation.

Increasingly, it seems that Sept. 11 was a painful initiation into a truly global society.

Some magical practices are reserved for the shaman, who acquires status by natural endowment, by inspiration, by apprenticeship, or by painful initiation.

This is how Anaïs becomes a mute witness to her virginal sister's painful initiation into anal sex (Elena wants to remain a technical virgin) by the smooth-talking Fernando, who wears Elena down with insistent flattery and extravagant avowals of love that she knows are lies.

After the painful and humiliating initiations required to join the Stonecutters, which is made up of many of the male characters on the show, Homer takes great pleasure in the society's secret privileges, such as an underground byway bypassing Springfield's traffic jams, drinking bouts and free rollerblades (in order to get from the parking lot to his workplace faster).

These phases will include baseline 1 at beginning of monitoring, baseline 2 prior to procedure initiation, heel warming or vein site cleansing, painful procedure (i.e., heel lance or venipuncture), application of bandage, and heart rate return to baseline.

We investigated the association between neuropathic symptoms and the concentrations of markers previously shown to be associated with painful neuropathies and/or immune reconstitution, within 12 weeks after cART initiation.

It is painful peer pressure, he said, and often drives them to seek out initiation, often without the deliberation and care that long characterized the ritual and still does among some groups, like the Basotho.

A recent publication from Chiang et al. (published after the initiation of our study) in patients treated with stereotactic radiotherapy for painful bone metastases showed an incidence of pain flare of 68%.

As much as it is about the quest for a miraculous being, "Unmistaken Child" is about Mr. Zopa's painful adjustment to the loss of a master he had served since the age of 7. His search is a crucial initiation ritual that restores meaning and purpose to a life that is suddenly desolate.

Nothing was my initiation".