Kings and sultans, perpetually battling each other for territory and treasure, prized the African slaves as warriors.
The alcohol-debilitated household, with a sternly penny-pinching grandmother and an increasingly embittered mother perpetually battling for the love of, and authority over, the young girl, now feels like a weighty burden for her to have overcome.
The alcohol-debilitated household, with Nanny, a sternly penny-pinching grandmother, and Louise, an increasingly embittered mother perpetually battling for the love of and authority over the young girl, feels like a weighty burden for her to have overcome.
Junior Neil Fendley plays Giles Ralston, Mollie's husband and handyman, perpetually battling the failing radiator.
It seemed I was perpetually battling time.
O'Neill's plays come to seem a Sisyphean endeavour, struggling up this mountain of grief; there is a real heroism in his obstinate, perpetually uphill battle to come to terms with human suffering.
Some Brazilians who have followed Batista for years claim that he is locked in a classic Oedipal battle, perpetually trying to outshine his powerful father, Eliezer Batista da Silva.
By which I mean the teeming masses of the precariat, getting by with part-time jobs, contract work, and sharing-economy serfdom, perpetually fighting a Sisyphean battle to erase their debts and amass some savings … and mostly losing.
And so (writes Rene McGrit, our hard-bitten yet sensitive, battle-hardened but perpetually enthusiastic award-winning football scribe), the crunch encounter between the cavaliers of England and the musketeers produced the result that we had all craved for/feared in our heart of hearts/been resigned to in advance.
These days, people seem to be perpetually gearing themselves up for the epic battle of merely existing.
But, according to this legal battle, Toronto's beloved yet perpetually doomed pro hockey team is heated about the perceived similarity in its logo.
