Sentence examples for private troubles from inspiring English sources

"We have private troubles all the time, but now it's become a public issue".

With their improvisational methods, Mike and Nathan push Arthur to face his private troubles in his work and force his acting career to fuse with his private life.

We're living in a public world of private troubles which we find difficult to share … we can take comfort in wildlife and landscape".

There were only indirect references to Mr. McQueen's private troubles — he had an acknowledged history of drug abuse and wild behavior — though the speakers noted that creativity was his main emotional outlet.

These private troubles combine with the strains of a wartime presidency to produce a portrait that is intimate but also decorous, drawn with extraordinary sensitivity and insight and focused, above all, on Lincoln's character as a politician.

The concept of discussing private troubles and emotions with a stranger runs counter to some powerful Chinese beliefs about the virtues of "eating bitterness" and the perils of "disasters that come from the mouth".

Money can't buy a thought, or a connection between ideas or things, or a link between a private trouble and a public issue.

His appearance in court in support of the imam, though he's not acting as his official counsel, becomes a matter of public record and private trouble when his presence is mentioned in an article in The New York Times.

Most people were aware of the water shortage only through articles in the papers, but author had his own private water troubles.

By A. C. Spectorsky The New Yorker, July 27 , 1940P. 52 Most people were aware of the water shortage only through articles in the papers, but author had his own private water troubles.

In the background to these all-absorbing private lives, the troubles begin to impinge from north of the border.