But generally she greets life's dirty tricks with wry humour and a stoicism that has sustained her through the sort of professional trials and personal tribulations that have crippled – or killed – many a weaker personality.
To sidestep questions about various running performances, Litton often invoked his personal tribulations.
For a while, her personal tribulations seemed to have become interwoven with her work; how could they not have?
He is charismatic and clean-cut, with Hispanic roots (he speaks Spanish fluently) and a tale of overcoming personal tribulations almost too incredible to be true.
Although the field of medicine is always a core component of the show's plots, much of the drama in Grey's Anatomy draws on the characters' personal tribulations.
Where the president's personal tribulations were mentioned by the French media, it was through the prism of the foreign press, thus allowing them to report developments while appearing to be above it all.
The pair married in 1968 and weathered all manner of personal tribulations during their 30-year-plus union before dying within months of each other, June in May 2003 and Johnny just four months later.
Where the president's personal tribulations were mentioned by the French media, it was through the prism of the "anglo-saxonne" press, thus allowing them to report developments while appearing to be above it all.
Over the next several years, Sipowicz endures wrenching personal tribulations and occasionally falls off the wagon, but repeatedly rights himself and strives, despite his instinctive bigotries, to do good — because, of course, the invisible hand of Milch continues to rescue him from isolation.
In the mid-1960s, aftereadingng a column in The New York Herald Tribune called "Where Are Lenny's Friends Now?," about the legal and personal tribulations of the comedian Lenny Bruce, she wrote him a check and became his part-time amanuensis, helping him with his legal research.
