She brought in cleaning crews to reduce unpleasant smells that made coming to work an ordeal.
For riders like Rana Dershowitz, a Manhattan lawyer, the morning trip to work became an ordeal.
They were like a celebrated walk made by the German film director Werner Herzog, whose work, joining outer ordeal to inner revelation, was a powerful exemplar to Chatwin.
In July 1948, he hanged himself.Extraordinarily, Gorky had continued to work through this ordeal, refining his abstractions: lyrical compositions of shapes suspended from the top of the canvas or spectral contours outlined in black pencil.
They communicate with one another through horseplay, teasing and occasional expressions of love, and they regard their work as an ordeal, a noble cause, an existential nightmare and a source of pleasure.
My contention is that you'll rapidly recognize the incredible fortune it is to live this lunatic life that requires navigating the dreaded work-life-balance ordeal.
Nevertheless the work occasionally became an ordeal when it should have been an adventure.
The guy across from me is talking aggressively on his phone about some big digital ordeal at work.
I was stunned, but Ruby's indomitable spirit means she tackled her mental illness head on, going to university to study how the brain works and turning her ordeal into a one-woman show.
All the same, it is an ordeal many working New Yorkers cannot avoid.
Edmund Wilson's Wound and the Bow (1941) explored this realm, and Van Wyck Brooks used this approach to biography in works such as The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920).
