Sentence examples for tale of suffering from inspiring English sources

By the end of 1989, after six seasons in the major leagues, his career stat line (301 at bats,.219 batting average,.246 on-base percentage,.296 slugging percentage, 11 walks against 80 strikeouts) told an eloquent tale of suffering.

The Palestinian tale of suffering made the day to day suffering of average Arabs seem bearable, and their need to maintain ethnic unity a noble -- if long-suffering -- goal.

Just because you tell the tale of suffering and agony does not mean you have the whole story.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1845) The pinnacle of prison escape novels, Dumas' novel is a tale of suffering and retribution.

It sucked up all the available column inches, while Agnes Grey – a spare, quiet tale of suffering and endurance that prefers unflinching realism to wild romance – went largely unremarked.

This is a sad tale of suffering, rape, murder and the misguided efforts of a paternalistic do-gooder (modeled on a real person, George Robinson, who tried to save, clothe and Christianize the aborigines).

From such baroque tales of suffering beyond the grave, Goldman turns away to affirm that "the Kaddish is more for the living than for the dead".

Although nobility is one of this work's most conspicuous attributes, "People of the Book" is also schematic and histrionic, piling serial tales of suffering onto the Sarajevo Haggadah and those who determined its fate.

First, he would hit me over the head with boyhood tales of suffering in order to silence any complaints I might have had about excessive homework or not being allowed to watch cartoons on television because they weren't "educational".

She said the situation in the country was getting worse by the day and she had heard horrific tales of suffering.

Tales of suffering, of utter hopelessness, and of coming out.