The Sox, all this while, have personified the rigorous and unbending difficulty of sport, and the grisly details of their ways of losing and the depths of their fans' suffering have been absorbed not just by eight- or nine-year-old boys and girls growing up in Brockton and Great Barrington but by the rest of us, smug at home on Schadenfreude Lane.
But in contrast to their neighbors in Latvia, where economic troubles led to riots and the government's collapse, Estonians stoically absorbed the suffering.
Every boost in carbon emissions, however, pushes us closer to the moment when global temperatures will exceed the two degrees Celsius rise from pre-industrial levels that scientists say is the maximum the planet can absorb without suffering catastrophic consequences.
Asphalt sealing elements for dams have to be watertight and able to absorb strains without suffering from cracking and thus losing their sealing ability.
They are being heated by climate change, turned slowly less alkaline by absorbing CO2, and suffering from overfishing and pollution.
It's not a poem in which he's parading his psychiatric conditions on his sleeve but in which he's so masterfully absorbed his mental suffering into a larger broader human struggle to find release and transcendence and wholeness.
Their mother, who is 45 and works as a nursing assistant, was thrilled by what she saw: a churchgoer in creased pants, so absorbed in the suffering of their homeland that his tiny suitcase was packed with DVDs of Liberian history.
And I realize that for upper-middle-class people and above, it would be a cost they could absorb without too much suffering.
So those living close to the sea, or in corridors suffering frequent storms, will tend to absorb more of the heavy isotopes in their hair.For that reason, however, it is not perfect.
Some airline executives expressed dismay yesterday at the financing provisions in a Congressional plan for improving aviation security, saying that the already suffering carriers might be forced to absorb the cost.
