purgatory

Unfortunately he only ever moved from "two bar hell to three bar purgatory".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Julian initially hoped to see hell and purgatory in her “showings” but her wishes are not granted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Acme has spent the past several years in cinematic purgatory after its original studio tried to bury it for a tax write-off.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Is this hell, purgatory or just a cosmic punchline?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

I can accept purgatory if heaven is beyond it.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024

Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

These upheavals and tragedies pierce the illusions we have constructed and leave us trapped and spellbound in self-inflicted and imposed purgatories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2019

They have neither private masses, nor mangled sacraments, nor purgatories, nor pardons. 

From The Apology of the Church of England by Lady Ann Bacon