vale of tears
Example Sentences
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It’s the technocratic version of a promise of eternal bliss after we depart this vale of tears.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2019
And why should the Emerald Isle, so betrayed, not have become this vale of tears?
From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2018
Perhaps Global Trends’ greatest achievement is to transform that future into a reading experience so mind-numbing that it was my own vale of tears.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2017
Most of our futures are probably grim, and probably, for most of us, this is still a vale of tears.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2016
You may not find young Hazel’s logic persuasive, but I have trod through this vale of tears longer than you, and from where I’m sitting, she’s not the lunatic.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
