A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.