Sentence examples for the hell which from inspiring English sources

For example, I spent some time with the idea that I could take the O.E.D. and only use words and phrases that definitely were in vogue and widely available for use in the eighteen-fifties, but then you find stuff like the phrase "what the hell," which would be allowed but that obviously seems wrong.

According to Samuel Clarke, the Puritan clergyman William Perkins (1558 1602) once managed to convince a young man at the gallows that he had been forgiven, enabling the youth to go to his death "with tears of joy in his eyes ... as if he actually saw himself delivered from the hell which he feared before, and heaven opened for receiving his soul".

Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: "Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life... .. Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: "We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there".

But in the Christian hell, which is the one that haunts our imagination, everyone is there for a reason, and it is part of their torment that they did not have to be.

For anyone who has grown weary of the multiplex hell, which has become such a familiar part of modern life, Federico Veiroj's A Useful Life (2010, Dogwoof, U) may provide some heartbreakingly bittersweet relief.

He was definitely a populist, but a civilian one.João Luis HamburgerSão PauloProper LatinSIR – You made the common error of mistranslating Dante's inscription over the entrance to hell, which formed the caption to the photograph in your article on the state of the legal system in Afghanistan ("Bleak courthouse", April 15th).

Four films have used elements of the theory: Murder by Decree, Jack the Ripper, The Ripper, and the Hughes Brothers' From Hell, which was based on a graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell.

She was featured in the 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which profiled the attempts of several Liberian women to force an end to Liberia's civil war.

Schaeffer made a number of recordings using the device, most notably the score for the 1961 Canadian 3D horror film, The Mask/Eyes Of Hell (which coincidentally starred Norma Beecroft's mother, Eleanor).

Moses, whom Schroeder coached at Pepperdine, said that Schroeder had his college players run up 250 steps on the Malibu cliffs known as the Stairway to Hell, which he described as "gnarly".

The king and his brothers climaxed proceedings by rescuing the Huguenots from hell, which was separated from paradise by a river on which floated the ferryman Charon in his boat.