Hard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage

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something doesn’t bear thinking about 12 → bear interest 13 CARRY carry literary to carry someone or something, especially something important The wedding guests arrived, bearing gifts. An inch is too much to bare when stripping the insulation from copper wiring; a strong connection usually only requires ¼ inch of exposed wire or less. If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace. The use of computers in production is extending all the time, as fully-automated plants and robots can bear witness. support SUPPORT/HOLD UP to be under something and support it SYN hold My leg was painful, and I wasn’t sure it would bear my weight.

a tray bearing a bottle and several glasses a load-bearing wall 6 SHOW/BE A SIGN OF sign/mark formal to have or show a sign, mark, or particular appearance, especially when this shows that something has happened or is true SYN have The letter bore no signature.Pregnancy loss is a common occurrence hiding in plain sight, and the oppressive silence surrounding the topic comes at the direct expense of those with lived experience. The actress looked at her new evening gown in the mirror and thought, “that is too much to bare at the Oscars. I agreed with him as to the utter impossibility of making it elevenpence ha’penny; but at the same time I resolved to one day decoy him to an eating-house I remembered near Covent Garden, where the waiter, for the better discharge of his duties, goes about in his shirt-sleeves–and very dirty sleeves they are, too, when it gets near the end of the month.

grin and bear it (=accept it without complaining ) It was a horrible job but she had to grin and bear it. bear fruit 10 INVESTIGATE able to be examined/compared etc [often in negatives ] to be suitable or good enough to be examined, compared, repeated etc without failing or being wrong The production figures did not bear scrutiny. Bear and bare are homophones: words that sound the same but mean different things and are spelled differently.One can’t give the fellow less, you know,” explained a young government clerk with whom I was lunching the other day in Regent Street. Name seven different forms of ejecta from impact craters, and four topographic features that impact craters can bear. Powered by anger against injustice and cruelty and the hope of limiting suffering, its method is inclusive. In the context of work and leave, the growing precariat of freelance and casual workers faces particular challenges.

The insured must bear the costs of the Engineers fees unless liability is subsequently established under the policy. Oderberg believes “we can fix this” and she aims to “forge a pathway for better care in early pregnancy loss”.bring pressure/influence to bear (on somebody/something) 15 → bear witness/testimony to something 16 ANGRY have feelings formal to have a particular feeling, especially a bad feeling bear (somebody) a grudge (=continue to feel annoyed after a long time ) It was an accident. You can tell at a glance the difference between the old hand and the novice; between the case-hardened man who has been used to shift and struggle for years and the poor devil of a beginner striving to hide his misery, and in a constant agony of fear lest he should be found out.

Once or twice this is slightly undermined by the use of that tricky word “we” – but this is anomalous, since the orientation of the work is to remember the diversity of experience associated with miscarriage. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries. One particularly poignant chapter (‘I Wanna be Sedated’) deals with the mental health impacts of pregnancy loss, which are earth-shatteringly powerful, and yet casually dismissed by medical professionals and society at large. Plus, I will demonstrate a memory trick that makes remembering whether to use too much to bare or bear easier.Most people don’t have a problem using these words when speaking, but writing them down creates a new set of problems. She has worked as a journalist for two decades in newswires across Europe, Asia and Australia, where she was the country’s first social media editor for Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Passengers could be insulting, and stewardesses just had to grin and bear it (=accept it without complaining ). Women who choose to find employment in military institutions want therefore to be allowed to bear arms and to fight.