* " The Expert Touch "-a reluctant experimental subject is tricked by his doctor into a painful battle against his inner demons, as part of a scheme to find the key to human sanity ; the ordeal leaves him perfectly sane, but also-and perhaps as a consequence-highly unhelpful.

She smiles and leaves, while Santoro muses that the whole ordeal was worth it since he had been on TV.

Throughout most of the ordeal, Andy has been having a relationship with Sam Mitchell ( Kim Medcalf ) whom he later married, but when Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham ) and Marcus Christie ( Stephen Churchett ) tricks Sam into selling the pub to Den, and signing her house over to Andy, Andy leaves her, taking Sam for every penny she had and leaving her homeless.

Ash, believing he has survived the ordeal, heads outside.

When reality was restored, only a few remembered what had gone on during the House of M. Captain Britain and the others were among the many who didn't, having only vague memories of the ordeal and believing it to be a dream.

The Nez Perce, exhausted by their long ordeal, also slowed down their flight, believing themselves a safe distance ahead of Howard ’ s forces.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

Gandalf himself died during this ordeal, and his body lay on the peak while his spirit travelled outside of time.

Brownlee requested that the police break it up ; while he pronounced himself sympathetic to the workers ' ordeal, he felt that such an event would create a volatile atmosphere that would breed radicalism and communism.

On 8 April 1099, Peter went through an ordeal by fire by his own choice in an attempt to prove himself.

Blackspell is apprehended, but only after Batman suspects Riddler went to great lengths to orchestrate the ordeal, including poisoning himself with a nearly lethal dose of Joker gas to skirt suspicion and act on a grudge between he and Blackspell.

After escaping that ordeal, Woot, the Tin Woodman as a tin owl, the Scarecrow as a straw-stuffed bear, and Polychrome as a canary turn south into the Munchkin Country and, with Polychrome's magic, reverse a spell cast on Tommy Kwikstep, a messenger boy who thoughtlessly wished himself twenty legs.

Although considering himself to have an expansive and learned worldview, Ignatius has an aversion to ever leaving the town of his birth, and frequently bores friends and strangers with the story of his sole, abortive journey from New Orleans, a trip to Baton Rouge on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, which Ignatius recounts as a traumatic ordeal of extreme horror.

In any case, most analysts ( including Stevenson himself ) agreed that the whole ordeal confused voters, resulting in Republican James R. Thompson winning the election.

In 1991, Puller told the story of his ordeal and its aftermath in a book titled Fortunate Son, an account that ended with Puller triumphing over his physical disabilities, and becoming emotionally at peace with himself.

Once the gang return to Ocean Shores, they see the sand is back and believe the ordeal to be over, but out of the blue, a giant power station emerges from the deep sea and through a holographic projector, Eric Golem Jr. reveals himself to be the mastermind behind Golem Industries ' operations.

The doctor who led the operation described Clichy's survival as " a miracle ", while the player himself admitted that the ordeal changed his attitude towards life stating " It made me realise that life can go quick.

To sustain himself through this ordeal, he consumes vast quantities of melange and carbohydrates from the ship's stores.

Fascinated by Barnabas himself, and the scientific opportunity he presented, she erased the memory of Maggie's ordeal through hypnotism in order to protect both of them.

Once back home, he apparently kept his seven-week ordeal to himself, fearing he would upset his mother with his recklessness.

Finally, he was to have his anus burned with a red-hot iron ( or, as the sentence read: " in that part of the body where he allowed himself to be known in sodomitical practice ") It is presumed he did not survive the ordeal.

Shot with a budget of $ 20 million in the wilds of Canada, it was not a financial success and proved an ordeal to make, with Winterbottom himself getting frostbite.

Williams placed the blame on himself for what happened in the 1993 World Series, adding that he had put the ordeal behind him:

He had planned it whilst travelling disguised among the Muslims of Sindh, and had laboriously prepared for the ordeal by study and practice ( including having himself circumcised to further lower the risk of being discovered ).

* Edward " Ned " T. Malone ( David Orth ) — An American newspaper reporter, hoping to make a name for himself and impress his girl back home, if he survives the ordeal.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

There are other interpretations which say that Saul and the witch having been frightened by his appearance, and Samuel as having been composed, classical rabbinical sources argue that Samuel was terrified by the ordeal, having expected to be appearing to face God's judgement, and had therefore brought Moses with him ( to the land of the living ) as a witness to his adherence to the mitzvot.

The journey proved to be an ordeal due to transportation disruptions and an outbreak of cholera within the entourage while traveling overland through Panama.

After his escape he encounters Honey from her ordeal where she had been pegged out to be eaten by crabs ; the crabs ignored her and she had managed to make good her own escape.

Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process ; however most slaves ( destined for island or South American plantations ) were likely to be put through this ordeal.

He suggests that Cú Chulainn should train in arms with the renowned warrior-woman Scáthach in the land of Alba ( Scotland ), hoping the ordeal will be too much for him and he will be killed.

He came to Ulster in disguise and suggested that Cú Chulainn should train in arms with the renowned warrior-woman Scáthach in Scotland, hoping the ordeal would be too much for him and he would be killed.

After the initial shock at the revelation that they are siblings, Tromeo and Juliet are determined not to let their whole ordeal be for naught ; they passionately embrace and drive off into the sunset.

After Spike's ordeal, Sylvester would have the courage and confidence to confront Chester, only to be beaten and tossed away by the little dog.

Abraham's willingness to give up his own son Isaac is seen, in this view, as foreshadowing the willingness of God the Father to sacrifice his Son ; also contrasted is Isaac's submission in the whole ordeal with Christ's, the two choosing to lay down their own lives in order for the will of God to be accomplished, as no struggle is mentioned in the Genesis account.

: It is, I submit, greatly to be deplored that after more than 100 years of our national existence, after the government has withstood the strain of foreign wars and the dread ordeal of civil strife, and its people have become united and powerful, this court should consider itself compelled to go back to a long repudiated and rejected theory of the constitution, by which the government is deprived of an inherent attribute of its being — a necessary power of taxation.

Often most or all of the endurance, or at least the more serious ordeal, is concentrated in an orgiastic collective session, which may be called hell night, or prolonged to a hell week and / or retreat or camp, sometimes again at the pledge's birthday ( e. g. by birthday spanking ), but some traditions keep terrorizing pledges ( a common term for the initiation candidates ; alternative terms include newbie, rookie, mainly in athletic teams, and freshman ) over a long period, resembling fagging.

Unusually, many of the traps in Rick Dangerous have no visible warning, which means that a player's initial progress through the game can be a nail-biting ordeal of trial and error.

He suggested that no one would be willing to risk such journey, having full understanding of this kind of ordeal.

In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the English Angevin King Henry II, the law of the land required that: " anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid jury, to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water.

The ordeal of cold water has a precedent in the Code of Ur-Nammu and the Code of Hammurabi, under which a man accused of sorcery was to be submerged in a stream and acquitted if he survived.

The ordeal would normally be conducted with a rope holding the subject connected to assistants sitting in a boat or the like, so that the person being tested could be pulled in if he / she did not float ; the notion that the ordeal was flatly devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was ' innocent ', is a modern elaboration.

Within this theory the empowered " damsel " can be a female hero rendered powerless and imperiled during her heroic ordeal but who ultimately emerges as a strong figure who claims victory ; yet the male and female versions of such ordeal and empowerment still differ at a fundamental level, in that when there is a character doing the rescuing ( sometimes referred to as " help unlooked for "), he is almost invariably male.