purgatory

According to the playbill, the answer is neither heaven nor hell (nor purgatory).

Summer got us through our yearly Hell and Purgatory and led us to Heaven in June.

Flynn likens the journey of gay Iranians refugees to “eternal purgatory.”

For the past four years, Panahi has been left in a legal purgatory, known in Iran as the Execution of Verdict.

I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.

Had they to return to purgatory by themselves—had the heavy white walking-stick to walk off without its owner?

If "war is hell," then to be in a strange country without credit and funds is certainly purgatory.

I'll give you the order of exercises of one of the last days of my purgatory, as I call it.

She wondered, rather idly, if she would spend her time in purgatory serving millions of Jane Ellens with iced tea.

She preferred possible purgatory to present imprisonment, and went back to her duty.