1.   He is famously reticent in talking about his extraordinary physical ordeal.

2.   I wanted them to understand that making this movie was going to be a taxing physical ordeal.

3.   Smyers has recovered from the emotional trauma and the physical ordeal of a subsequent five-hour operation related to her cancer.

4.   There was the physical ordeal, the suddenly absent Herceptin, the fact that Winer refused to give her significantly better survival odds.