trials and tribulationsliterary or humorous

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
prison
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

Examples of tribulation

tribulation
Does singing about the trials and tribulations of love inevitably make one a torch singer?
These accounts provide fascinating insight into the trials and tribulations of the women's chosen path and way of life.
After some trials and tribulations during the early years, the state did eventually commit itself wholeheartedly to the creation of citizen-electors.
Those whose contrition is incomplete are most vulnerable in times of tribulation and terrptrttion - the wintry period of the soul.
Nonetheless, the trials and tribulations of these patients are not uncommonly encountered in the context of genetic counseling.
Yet her music is extraordinarily positive, either joyful or beautiful, rarely gloomy, with little trace of the upheavals and tribulations of her personal life.
For example, aspirin is advertised as the panacea for every kind of tribulation, not only the common headache.
To a great extent, notwithstanding the trials and tribulations of recent decades when industry output has waned, this remains the case today.
The metaphor also aptly portrays the tribulations and breakthroughs in one's professional life.
His extensive research in private papers helps to reveal barristers' daily routines and personnel dilemmas, illuminating the tribulations of life on the legal circuit with particular clarity.
Morale is a concept that is generally applied to a person facing a challenge, trial, or tribulation.
Despite its tribulations, the gendarmerie was a major late-empire institution, performing a range of tasks in outlying regions as part of the central government's ambitious reform initiative.
But there are also important lessons here for anyone engaged in studying the trials and tribulations of aid projects between more and less economically developed countries.
Lilburne's numerous comments upon his trials and tribulations are as problematic as they are valuable, and must be supplemented with evidence from other sources, both official and unofficial.
Many of the tribulations through which we are going need not have arisen had we stuck with the county council and the two tiers.
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