Instead it will be purged, strengthened, and made endurable.

Such dissenters insist that human experiences are not improved, embellished or made any more endurable or enjoyable by invoking 'god' in some form or other.

Though he still had to go to church, that hardship was made more endurable by the fact that, however long the services - and they could be bone-achingly endless - there was the promise of good meat and ale and cakes afterwards.

Yvor Winters pronounced, in characteristically forthright manner, that Even C. L. Barber found that 'sometimes the activity of the poetry alone makes endurable the passivity of the attitude expressed by the poet'.

Health became a boon too precious to be trifled with; life assumed a deeper significance when death's shadow fell upon its light, and she discovered that dependence might be made endurable by the sympathy of unsuspected friends.

Chapter XXXI The stay in Nevers was made endurable for Aurore through the absence of her husband.

Chapter 4 The evening stint was only made endurable by the fact that I had an out.

Betty is suffering from an ailment made more endurable by Martian conditions.

His mind had long since become a perfect filter, admitting to his consciousness only things which he wanted to perceive: only so can big-city life be made endurable.

"I may say that this terrible evening was made more endurable by the beauty of the singing and Kurt Weill's music."