Sentence examples for travail is from inspiring English sources

The low Latin root of the French word travail is tripalium, an instrument sometimes used for torture.

That bond that held them together - as it holds us together tonight - that bond that has stood every test and travail is found deep in our national consciousness: an abiding love of liberty.

While "Trouble Every Day," like "Beau Travail," is a movie in which images matter far more than words, the Melville story that inspired the earlier film lent it a shape and metaphorical resonance that the new one lacks.

"Beau Travail" is beautifully filmed, the dialogue is minimal and the military training sequences, under the scorching African sun with the sparkling blue Gulf of Aden in the background, are elaborately choreographed, often to the backdrop of Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd".

At the milder end of personal travail is the experience of Barry J. Marshall (which is not recounted in these books).

French director Claire Denis' follow-up to the mesmerising Foreign Legion drama "Beau Travail" is a far more interesting and troubling work than advance reviews from the festival circuit had suggested.

He said the overhaul of the Code du Travail was "a reform of profound change".

And this means that liaisons d'amour lieu de travail are on the increase.

"Beau Travail" was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival.

Correction: May 27, 2012 An earlier version of this post misstated the year the film "Beau Travail" was released.

Personal travail — being shot in Ramallah, kidnapped in Libya — was part of the business for him, as it is for many of our colleagues.