Ms. Chang's tales are primarily of Chinese immigrants to America and their tribulations about leaving one culture behind for a new and often strange one.
In its most popular contemporary form, this apocalypticism applies a painful literalism to the Book of Revelations, St . Pauls letters and other biblical texts to predict that a rapture is imminent in which the righteous will be swept up into heaven (naked, we are solemnly assured), where they will be spared the tribulations about to befall the Earth.
Anyway, Mr. Wright, who is a moralist, goes into great lengths to compare pathetic, sex-addicted genius athlete Tiger Woods, who is valiantly trying to return to his profession in about a week after much trials and tribulations brought about completely by himself, to the doomed hero of Bernard Malamud's tedious The Natural.
Singing about biblical tribulations and about journeys to glory, the choir must have startled its early listeners with the propulsion of call-and-response and the determination behind the faith it professed.
If you have ever been pregnant then you will understand the trials and tribulations I am about to write.
So how did that play out for you? A. It was frankly just a long road of mistakes and learning and watching and trials and tribulations, really, about managing people, counseling people, hiring people, letting people go and learning through the actual process of doing all those things over and over again that there's a middle ground that makes sense.
The writer describes the trials and tribulations which will come about with the advent of the 21st century.
By Hayes B. Jacobs The New Yorker, April 27 , 1963P. 138 The writer describes the trials and tribulations which will come about with the advent of the 21st century.
He remembers old loves; he thinks about the tribulations of the Jews and about the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary in 1956, in which he was at first a reluctant and then an active participant.
Readers can look forward to sitting in their armchairs and, briefly at least, pushing aside their own tribulations while reading about other people's troubles.
He said that he "had a very clear view from household slides and projectors about the history of Israel, about the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people, about the enormous suffering and loss during the Holocaust, as well as the extraordinary struggle that he described to me of people to create this magnificent homeland".
