"There's going to be a long and brutal ordeal that will rip apart the fabric of society," she warns.

He concluded by saying, "This brutal ordeal is now officially over and I will never speak of it again."

The twenty-odd leagues from Hurgrum to the foot of the Gullet had been a brutal ordeal for them . . . and not a lot better for the Horse Stealers, Bahzell admitted privately.

Baker Cites 'Brutal Ordeal' "Cut off from some of the most basic of human necessities," Mr. Baker said in his welcoming address, "you have been victorious over an uncivilized and brutal ordeal."

It's also a challenge to the audience to remain mindful of these men's humanity, despite the brutal and dehumanizing ordeal to which they will be subjected.

They had survived many brutal ordeals in the last year and over the last few days on the trail, but if that storm was any indication, their greatest trials were yet ahead of them, waiting for them in Castle Trinity.

Ms. Aronson, a longtime state administrator, said she knew that the job of shrinking state government would be a brutal 20-hour-a-day ordeal.

Captain Mahmood Durrani was the only Japanese POW to be awarded the GC and survive his brutal ordeal.

Their brutal ordeals fighting off his father had forged a bond much deeper than any ordinary mother-son relationship.

To many in those ancient days the tourney may have seemed a bloody and brutal ordeal, but we who look at it with ample perspective see that it was a rude but gallant preparation for the conditions of life in an iron age.