Sentence examples for suffering rather from inspiring English sources

Hospice care is palliative, meant to relieve pain and suffering rather than bring about a cure.

Individual suffering rather than collective drama is vividly portrayed in "The Raft of the Medusa" (c. 1819; Louvre).

Our shared confusion and disgust can bind us to those who are suffering, rather than draw us away from them.

It would be better to reduce passenger suffering rather than trying to distract passengers from noticing it.

This broad appeal is unique, especially because it is based on suffering rather than concrete battlefield accomplishments.

And then there is "Q", an annual conference of 20-and 30-something evangelicals that focuses on soothing human suffering rather than preaching salvation.

After contemplating suicide as an attempted "quietus" from a "weary life," Hamlet ponders the dread of life after death, "the undiscovered country," and how this possibility puzzles the will and makes us endure our present sufferings rather than risk ones we do not know.

But the image he seeks is not that of graphic suffering but rather of a very quiet, lonely death.

Had the intent been to offer humanitarian aid to the suffering families rather than to pre-emptively dissuade lawsuits against the airlines, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master of the Victim Compensation Fund, would now be called a hero.

Thus at the macrocosmic level, the ordinary world was viewed not as the Buddhists saw it in terms of delusion, error, and suffering, but rather as the bountiful and morally good creation of heaven and earth, leading to the on-going production and reproduction of the ten-thousand things of the world in which we live.

This is not about less suffering but rather more suffering; this is not about less loss but more loss.