This lets us know how epic the designer's personal ordeal has been, how heroic his endurance.

Her brainstorm came from a wrenching personal ordeal.

Her personal ordeals caused her to become removed from the civil rights movement.

Dr. Hill said he went through "an emotional personal ordeal before deciding" to break from the team and publish the dissenting paper.

He wrote a one-man show called "Adoption" about his own personal ordeal of coming to family.

The play deals with the personal ordeals of each of the female characters.

In the meantime, the crisis can be a personal ordeal.

But why are some people better able than others to weather traumatic events like a job loss, home foreclosure, or personal ordeals?

Whatever happened, this terrible personal ordeal would be over.

Franklin Roosevelt's inner sense, perhaps developed out of his long personal ordeal, seemed never to be scathed by outside events.