Sentence examples for physical travails from inspiring English sources

It's no surprise that the Times would devote such coverage to an article detailing the physical travails of professional football.

The wails of a newborn will lure its mother away from almost anything, including the physical travails of her mate.

She projects a strikingly positive attitude in conversation despite her physical travails, though she can still be haunted by them, she said, as while singing the air "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" — with the line "And though worms destroy this body" — in the Trinity "Messiah".

This is something the veteran maestro James Levine would have understood, with his sure musical instincts, and might well have internalized, given the physical travails that have dogged him in recent years and that, in the end, kept him from leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra in this work at Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening.

Watching the dependence, indignity and sheer physical travail that Brooke must live through every day, Peggy told me, she doesn't think she would have the stamina to endure a devastating injury like his.

But the Indiana point guard made no attempt at levity when asked if he empathized with Ewing's physical and emotional travails over the past few years and his long-frustrated quest to win a National Basketball Association championship.

After invoking the spirit of Bach to appear from amid swirling choral and orchestral clouds, the work tells the story of his life and death, and especially of his travails: overwork, physical ailments, uncomprehending employers.

With a bushy mustache, large, weathered-looking features and a voice full of gravel, Mr. Gammon was a natural for roles that called for men with the experience of dusty roads, out-of-the-way saloons, physical work and family travails written on their faces.

Rugby's latest travails are only heightened because Mr. Cronje fits the physical stereotype of a redneck Afrikaner.

Its language is co-opted for conflicts in which no physical danger is ever likely to arise, and, routinely and traditionally, for the travails of love.

Mr. Orza's Apollo had the right sense of artistic travail, but only at the end of this performance did he, despite his physical authority, start to free up; it was hard to believe this Apollo was a god newborn.