purgatorial

Marriage is among the most purgatorial of states, even under the best of circumstances.

You could say I exist in a Purgatorial state of concern about them.

Items burned by dead people reaching from purgatorial fire.

At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair.

But this now was a purgatorial impotence, after the decisions had been made and the process initiated.

She turned and looked back but could no longer tell where she had entered this purgatorial zone.

She would transmit the purgatorial fire of what was most spiritually extreme in European art and thought.

But after what seemed like a purgatorial if not presidential term, they came to a halt, and Del led the way into the living quarters.

The hell of not knowing his past has given way to the purgatorial torture of discovering it.

For centuries, associations praying for the purgatorial souls were common.

Medieval theologians concluded that the purgatorial punishments consisted of material fire.

There are many other such speculations concerning the nature and duration of purgatorial punishments.

The trip took on the floating, purgatorial quality of a Samuel Beckett play.

The Purgatorial societies and orders of flagellants were other specialized medieval types.

Thus, supposedly, began one of the most infamous and purgatorial managerial reigns in British football history.

Their leering faces make an already horrendous train journey truly purgatorial.

But Sebastian was white and shaking, and his dark eyes had purgatorial gleams.

A couple of movie people were spotted wobbling down that purgatorial road to nowhere, the red carpet, in his creations.

"The Shield" 's setting reflected our purgatorial state; it was confined to the parts.

I knew nothing else, nothing unbounded and purgatorial as what I have since suffered.

But this Earth, this very Earth has been my purgatorial prison.

And at first it's purgatorial.

He was a member of Priests' Purgatorial Society.

Somewhere in that purgatorial middle lies the art of Jessye Norman.

We are back in the world of MTV news, which may come as a relief after the long, purgatorial passage through group therapy.