travail

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Physical travail being an inexhaustible source of black comedy and a recurring metaphor for the human condition in Beckett’s writing, the depiction of mortal decline is on point.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

Mulaney's second personal travail – which he does not address at all – was his highly publicized divorce from Anna-Marie Tendler and subsequent relationship with Olivia Munn with whom he had a child.

From Salon • May 3, 2023

Lors d’une de ses foires, récemment, M. Piens a positionné un stand exposant le travail d’Invader contre le pilier où l’artiste avait subrepticement placé une mosaïque.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

Yet I was confident I should ease his travail; and I prayed for him every day till we passed over into the camp prison.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Yet bonds of friendship, colleagueship, and shared travail in the bomb project made it difficult for Lawrence to dismiss Oppenheimer’s disquiet entirely.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik