She describes her dramatic struggle to resist the Bulgar soldier but doesn't think of her conduct as particularly unusual.

Every day, in remote corners of the globe, these animals live their lives - dramatic struggles for survival.

Their parents, though, are against this and want them to become doctors, engineers and businessman which creates the dramatic struggle for the film.

What is missing is a dramatic struggle for Aurora's soul.

"Her entire life represents a very dramatic struggle to read and write," Mrs. Price said.

They recall the sometimes dramatic struggle over the Radicofani pass, then the relief of arrival in Siena, knowing the worst was behind them.

Confessing even the most dramatic struggles, I have found, people reach for the simplest language, that of a child before a world too confusing to understand.

There was, as well, the dramatic political struggle that brought Mao Zedong to leadership - a position he retained until he died in 1976.

In any case, spectators who hoped to see a dramatic struggle were disappointed.

But I'd already exhausted strength with remarkably dramatic and equally ineffective struggles, and had reached the point where it seemed much easier simply to let go.