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58 examples of Pained in a sentence

I related to their invisibility, which pained me during my childhood but has become my greatest asset as an immersive documentarian, because I can just fade into my empathy.
And I was really pained by what I saw because I thought to myself, "These poor fisherfolk, how are they going to go about their daily activities with these restrictions."
It took the rhythm out of my swagger, it threw me off balance, it pained me with every step I took forward.
What even pained me more, was seeing what he had written to his daughter.
CP: At first, very kind of pained, awkward conversations.
Unfortunately, Lee is quickly sidelined in favor of endless scenes of Capote bemoaning his pained existence.
I feel pained from the viewing of this movie.
To give you an indication of how frustrating it was to watch this particular bomb, I'll give you an example quoted during my first pained viewing.
There are so many clichés that it pained me to sit through this movie.
As the boy's disgruntled father, poor Gary Sinise hovers around the edges, in mock shame, always with a pained look on his face.
However, as a young generation Y'er who just recently spent two months obsessing over the five seasons of Get Smart, the 60's TV show, this movie pained me from the moment I entered and saw Steve Carell dumbing down the part.
Jodi Thelin's Georgia Miles gives male viewers a hit of pained nostalgia for the archetypal beauty who is almost within our grasps, but, always just out of reach.
For me it took me to a place and I came out of it having witnessed a world frayed and beautiful, starched and pained, barren and splendid.
as i looked around the theater, it was obvious that nearly everyone, barring perhaps the elderly, were completely bored or pained by this movie.
Again and again, his scenes were boorish and unnecessary and Peter Lorre just looks pained as he stands there and watches this buffoon "act".
No one involved escapes unharmed: Bruce Greenwood actually seems pained to be on-screen, though poor Jeanne Tripplehorn seems to carry herself as if she's actually in something good, which had me thinking all the while, "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!" Adriano Giannini, son of Giancarlo Giannini, star of the Italian original, "Swept Away...", is, like his father before him, immensely attractive, and isn't altogether bad (despite winning a Razzie nomination for "Worst Actor"), but, like almost everything else about this production, it all comes back to Madonna, on whose shoulders rest the blame.
Yet funny it is--listen to Margaret Sullivan's harsh dismissal of Jimmy Stewart and watch his pained expression as he replies that her comments were a remarkable blend "of poetry and meanness".
Poor Johnny Gimble, Texas's best fiddler, who looked pained but characteristically pleasant while trying to save bad, fake "country & western" music--he doesn't even get a credit on this site, while Vassar Clements does.
We all know that Héctor Lavoe wasn't a saint, and his life was indeed a tragedy from when he became famous on... but the overwhelming feeling you get from all real-life sources of information and trivia that have described his life in the past is that, contrary to the despotic, abusive brute portrayed in the film, Héctor's character was way more generous, more people-friendly (I'll talk about this in a minute), pained, multidimensional than what we're fed with through Marc Anthony's interpretation.
Reilly recalls his tortured childhood,up thru his late adolescence with a mix of snide humour & pained memories (how he even got through childhood & adolescence with a vile,racist,homophobic control fanatic Mother,a alcoholic,manic depressive Father,a comatose Aunt & other dysfunctional family members is a small miracle in itself).
Both come across as overly melodramatic to me, with the romantic elements so pained that it seemed the character's heads would explode.
I felt pained for Fiona in that she lost her mother so young and her father was having a very hard time raising her on his own.
It must have pained him to play this role and, with his reputation, made his character in here - watching this film for the first time in the 1990s - have no credibility.
Leaving the theater, I honestly felt as though this one gave the first two a run for their money as a film, as much as it pained me to say it.
A woman moves into the haunted house of her memories, discovers ghosts and a mystery, starts working it all out while a cynical husband states that it can't be real, and eventually resolves the pained past of what causes the haunting in the first place, thus leading to transcendence.
He had been pained by it then, and now was repeatedly pained by her petty cares.
'I am not angry with you,' he said just as gloomily, 'but I am doubly pained.
I am pained too because this breaks our friendship.
Don't you remember?''Oh Mama!' said Kitty, looking pained.
Varenka felt pained and ashamed, but at the same time she experienced a sense of relief.
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