travails

“Pacific Overtures” covers enormous ground, but at the center are two characters whose fates reflect their nation’s travails.

In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance painted a personal portrait of the trials, travails and bad decisions of family members, neighbours and friends.

You'll note that he said he will "protect women at a level never seen before" as if women are abandoned children who are desperate for him to come and rescue them from all their travails.

Similar fights over memorials to the comfort women have played out elsewhere — including Southern California — but the dispute has special resonance in Germany, with its own travails in coming to terms with an ugly history.

At the Economic Club speech last week, he alluded to it again, whining about his legal travails: