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It was like turning from some purgatorial fiend to an angel of light, come to announce that the season of torment was past.

We will make progress through this purgatorial Middle only if Church leaders--the human persons who serve--focus on the realities that have contributed to the infection of erotic disorder that is haphazardly nourished by perennial hierarchical strategy and tactics.

He then notes Padre Renteria's responsibility for Comala's purgatorial conditions; the priest's avarice makes him incapable of giving absolution, which condemns the entire town to Purgatory.

Also in that purgatorial group are some 200 migrants who were released from immigration detention into the United States.

Through the narrative, Nadia gradually descends into a sort of purgatorial state of paranoia, but the devil is not in the details of her ethnicity, for those are never in question.

Manlove emphasizes that Lilith works on multiple levels: one can read it as simple narrative or as an allegory; as depicting a purgatorial afterworld or Vane's psychological inner world; as picturing ultimate Reality as characterized by multiplicity and oppositions, or as a unity.

It made for an unintentionally, and somewhat macabrely, humorous commentary " during a season when a luggage disaster at John F Kennedy International Airport condemned many editors and retailers on the fashion caravan to spend endless purgatorial hours tracking down missing bags " to watch models parade alongside a conveyor belt and then grab at totes and jewel boxes and trunks made from animal hides.

Sim presents a roll call of writers who perpetuate visions of a purgatorial city populated by human husks: "Such dystopian renderings of the city can be found in the work of Charles Dickens, Charles Booth, Henry Mayhew, George Gissing, H.

The novel's narrator, an unnamed Marine who dies from the same blast that crippled Eden, observes Eden and Maryfrom his purgatorial state, unaware of what fate befalls Mary, Eden, or himself.

Act 2 has the ambience of a purgatorial space where Faustus can observe the anguish of his suicidal wife and the heavenly bliss surrounding his son.

He plunges into the purgatorial fire: "Then he vanished into the fire which refines them" (Eliot 427).

His book is a symphony in words, dedicated to a London where vagrants "sprawled in purgatorial exhaustion"; hotels with "suspiciously pastoral names throbbed with sullen and illicit conjunctions"; and smokers, their hands cupped around their cigarettes, "waited for death on the pavement."