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Example sentences for: ordeal

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Let's say we subject him to behavior modification of the Clockwork Orange sort, putting him through some Pavlovian ordeal that takes the devil out of him.
The WP reports that even an Iraqi newspaper owned by Saddam Hussein's son has joined the global grief for King Hussein: "Our hearts are with our brave people in Jordan who we hope will overcome this ordeal."
Jordanian commentator Fakhri Ka'war accused state-controlled Arab media of having lulled people into the delusion that the only obstacle to the peace process was Netanyahu, and that if Barak won the elections he would prove to be "the great savior who rids the Palestinian people of their ordeal."
Again and again in his writings, Bettelheim insisted that the daunting task of "inner integration" was a developmental ordeal that could be mastered with great struggle, and with the support of good stories.
The quote he keeps using as his smoking gun--"this ordeal as a whole may be over"--is wrested from a fuller sentence, which reads, "Perhaps this is why so many of us find it hard to accept that this ordeal as a whole may be over."