"I haven't figured out how to write as myself," Paul says at one point, and as he chafes against the requirements of his job and the foul corruption of his environment, he is also undergoing the testing ordeal that will ultimately give him a voice and a vocation.
Reenacting the faith-testing ordeals of Ibrahim Abrahamm, the Biblical founder of monotheism) and his family, Muslims believe that an "accepted Hajj" will cleanse them of all their sins.
We succumbed, and off he went each week to two tutors, one for English, one for math -- preparing to submit himself to the tests ordeal not once but twice this spring.
But unlike most restaurants, Faustina has not had the luxury — or the patience-testing ordeal — of a slow build played out across months of meticulous planning, financial consultations and menu tinkering.
We learn quite a lot about that test: the ordeals of training, the genealogy of the "Teams," the lore and legends that have grown up around this elite community.
A few documents have been preserved that attest to the initiation of carefully chosen persons who were made to undergo tests and ordeals in accordance with psychosomatic criteria borrowed from physiognomy (the art of determining character from physical, especially facial, traits).
Valentine's Day was to the junior set of East Cleveland, Ohio, what the Tuesday after the first Monday in November has been, of late, to the Republicans--a time of trial and testing, an ordeal by majority vote, an implacable measuring of proud boasts and fond hopes..
Campbell was the first to identify a structure that most epic stories of heroes tend to follow a hero is called to an adventure, encounters tests and ordeals, and is transformed by the experience.
To be fair, I didn't know what MMA was, only some type of fighting - but I knew that some forms of trial by ordeals involved physical tests (such as trial by fire, where the accused was to walk across boiling hot rocks. If their feet healed, they were innocent; if their feet didn't heal, they were guilty).
During his test-taking ordeal he worked in several law-related jobs, including terms as a law clerk for the cities of Los Angeles and Compton.
The ancestor to the duel is the early medieval system of trial by ordeal – physical tests of endurance which determined guilt and innocence.
