Painful in sentence

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Next January comes and people might feel that if they save more, they have to spend less, and that's painful.

And I was thinking, this is going to be so difficult, so painful.

I believe this wish reflects a painful truth that I've learned in the past 15 years.

Finally, make sure that you can tell them that you will make this process as annoying and as painful and as difficult as possible for them.

So, in closing, on this whole thing here is hopefully very soon we will not have to respond to these painful phone calls that we get after disasters where we don't really have anything to sell or give you yet.

My belief is that it's almost too painful to articulate our aspirations for our healthcare system, or even admit that we have any at all.

While I was preparing to write my student note for the Yale Law Journal on mechanical restraints, I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist, and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading, painful and frightening.

Without this painful fight to break free from the confines of the cocoon, the newly formed butterfly can't strengthen its wings.

And so, it was an incredibly painful time in my life, and yet it really started to give me the humility to start listening.

To me, this is the saddest and most painful question that people ask, because we victims know something you usually don't: It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser.

What followed were the most difficult decisions in my life, painful to me, painful to my countrymen, imposing cuts, austerity, often on those not to blame for the crisis.

Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that was so painful and confusing, that all you wanted to do was learn as much as you could to make sense of it all?

It's fixed in a clenched spasm and it's excruciatingly painful.

So the patient had an actual arm, which is painful, in a sling for a few months or a year, and then, in a misguided attempt to get rid of the pain in the arm, the surgeon amputates the arm, and then you get a phantom arm with the same pains, right?

He had a phantom arm, excruciatingly painful, and he couldn't move it.

So what we were thinking is, there's a tremendous need for bone repair, of course, but this iliac crest-type approach really has a lot of limitations to it, and could we perhaps recreate the generation of bone within the body on demand and then be able to transplant it without these very, very painful aftereffects that you would have with the iliac crest harvest?

The population growth in Nigeria, and especially in these areas like Makoko, are painful reminders of how out of control things really are.

Proust is trying to show us that jealousy feels intolerable and makes us look absurd, but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge, a quest for truth, painful truth, and actually, where Proust is concerned, the more painful the truth, the better.

But once in a while, something very difficult is given to us, and when this difficult thing occurs to us, it's a challenge to rise to that opportunity, and we can rise to it by learning something which is sometimes painful.

And it was at that point that I began to think that it was just too painful to be alive, and that the only reason not to kill oneself was so as not to hurt other people.

Sounds painful.

Grasshopper mice resist painful venom from scorpion prey through genetic changes in their nervous systems.

Now, as I took care of the 200 adults, I found it extremely painful.

The executions were designed to be as prolonged and as painful as possible, like crucifixion, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel.

The reason, I would come to find out, was that their prosthetic sockets were painful because they did not fit well.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

What I do occasionally is I fall into a sort of painful coma.

So on the same night that Barack Obama won his historic presidency, the lesbian and gay community suffered one of our most painful defeats.

When we say math is painful, there's some truth to it for some people.

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