How To Use Painful In A Sentence

This causes verrucas to grow back into the skin, which can be painful.
He recalls that, in the painful heat of the moment, he was ‘the first to miscall the parentage’ of the future Scotland manager.
Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog
They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
People may bury painful childhood memories to protect themselves.

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Lawrence survived a devastating accident at work with months of painful recovery in the hospital and at home.
The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
He had received a painful kick on the knee.
A painful red stroke appeared on her chest as the sword grazed her skin.
The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution.
It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
The master talked to him gently but seriously, and he cocked his ears, and listened with painful intentness. The Call of Kind
She looked torn for a moment, as though she was thinking about a painful experience.
At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
But before sleep could sneak one pajamaed toe into the bedsheets of her consciousness, an electric shock jolted her painfully into alertness. The Three Furies
The cold air would become extremely painful on his amputation stumps.
-- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.' Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
Not without a painful emotion of impending danger, as I watched the stellular reflections dancing in the rushing river, did I wander on in the wake of a group of pack-ponies, and took my turn in being assisted over the broken chasms by the muleteers. Across China on Foot
Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham.
Can it be as painful as the spur of a fighting cock in one's heel?
My neck is still very painful and often stiff. The Sun
Hiking boots are obviously a much better idea for moving around in, but the trade off can be feet so cold and painful that your whole day can be spoilt.
I wouldn't mind death, so I could escape my tormentors here, but I fear the painful ways of dying the men here invent.
Because of you and other netty professor-type folks, while agonizing over writing papers the last few years, I would think of my professor having to GRADE the papers of the whole class and try hard not to make any painful errors. Near a sunny window
The stitch in her side was growing more and more painful with each step.
When the iris of the eye becomes infected and inflamed, a painful condition called iritis can develop. EHow - Health How To's
Obviously the decisions of Janet, Sherry, and Marjorie touched a fragile and painful nerve. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
In her earlier, greater work, someone - in the end, among the disasters and the funny bits and the painful stumbles and everyone crashing out in some way - would have come through smiling.
As painful as side effects are, however, they do not really call into question the basic logic of the threat we face and how we should respond to it.
On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
I don't know why the film got panned so much - for me it's exquisitely, painfully beautiful.
Every year around this time, college admissions officers can be heard humblebragging about how painful it was to reject so many qualified applicants.
Former squaddie D'Arcy learns the ropes, takes the shivs and gets into painful situations. This week's new films
Our partnership came to a painfully abrupt end one afternoon when she ran off with me under a metal paddock rail. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
For many, the most traumatic and painful part of the disorder is the constant obsession with food and weight.
Becoming a good writer is a painful work and not every man is able to master it and more importantly, continue toiling in this impellent sphere. Goa Blog
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
In recent photos (like this one) she looks painfully underweight, but I'm hoping that's just how her metabolism is rather than any digestive issues or eating disorder. Blah blah blah blah blah & etc.
Conflict transformation avoids allocating blame or dwelling on the past, no matter how painful, in order to try to achieve shared futures.
Not having the right support puts stress on the bones and joints, which could lead to joint problems and painful stress fractures in worst case scenarios. The Sun
Each year, 600,000 or more Americans are diagnosed with shingles, a painful skin disease caused by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus.
Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
He died a slow and painful death.
The past is violently, thrillingly, even painfully restored to us by the texture of a towel, a stumble on a paving stone, the clinking of a teaspoon against a cup and, yes, the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea.
It was just too difficult and painful. Times, Sunday Times
The shutdown is the latest in a series of painful budget measures.
Asset deflation of this magnitude for the average American is thus very painful.
His eyes clouded over, signaling that his next words were painful to him.
She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face.
You'll see them sideslipping and snowplowing, while moving at a speed so slow it's painful to watch.
There is a painful contradiction between what is in my head and the facade I adopt for the public, my friends and family.
Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
The stings can be exceptionally painful and in extreme cases fatal. Times, Sunday Times
If the cartilage is worn away, by arthritis for example, it can make the joint painful and stiff.
The usual mischievous sparkle had gone from his eyes and he appeared serious, painfully serious.
He was reported to be battling depression, and had gone through a painful and costly divorce.
It doesn't make the sting of defeat any less painful, and there are some who think it's all over, but the campaign has succeeded in whetting the media's appetite for a spectacular showdown on March 4, which is already being promoted as a sequel to Super Tuesday. Hillary Finished? - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully.
This recap is painful for me in a way that no recap has been before. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
The judicial process was initially painfully slow, partly as a result of a 1978 amnesty law that protected members of the armed forces. Times, Sunday Times
They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins. Inflation and War Finance
A big, majestic study for this sculpture, in pastel, charcoal and acrylic on brown paper, finds two shadowy birds alighting, and a ghostly doubled head, its mouth stretched painfully wide.
The legal system can be painfully slow .
It causes painful blisters and sores. The Sun
The immune system withers under the viral attack, leaving the body extremely vulnerable to other painful and life-threatening diseases.
Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes.
A potentially amusing sketch is stretched into a full-length play that's painfully short on jokes. Times, Sunday Times
They help to cut down the number of acne bacteria in the blocked-up grease glands and reduce painful inflammation.
Section Two analyzes the theme choice of his poetry from three directions of emotional sigh, the painfulness of losing family and homeland as well as the feeling of reclusion.
As a result, adolescence has became a painful experience and teenagers are self-medicating with drugs and drink to cope with the stress.
My own memories of Skillmaster Galen's lessons were painful in the extreme. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Each commemorated a painful anniversary on the same day last week.
It isn't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places.
Imagery offers another approach to aversion therapy which is not as painful or invasive as the procedures mentioned above.
Difficult or painful swallowing may both change the voice and interfere with eating.
If Billie Holiday tends to root us to one spot, (the place from which her painful joy issues forth into the world), Yannatou carries us on a voyage into different musical dialects with varied textures and inscapes.
He used to be painfully shy, but now he's started to blossom .
This can be particularly painful when it comes to big audio-visual systems and "smart" home automation systems that control everything from radiant floors and humidity to light dimmers and pool temperatures. Cutting Edge Today, Passé Tomorrow
If thy disease be continuate and painful to thee, it will not surely last: and a light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. Anatomy of Melancholy
It's painful to watch her making the best of a terrible script.
All hurry or bustle is peculiarly painful to the sick. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
For years he had successfully repressed the painful memories of childhood.
The judicial process was initially painfully slow, partly as a result of a 1978 amnesty law that protected members of the armed forces. Times, Sunday Times
A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth.
Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time, because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful. I miss you ,and miss you so much. Do you know there is someone thinking of you and caring you all the time ? Your smiling eyes are just like the sparkling stars hanging on the curtain of my heart.
Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time, because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful.
If I cried a tear of painful sorrow,If I lost all hope for a new tomorrow,Would you dry my tear and ease my pain,Would you make me smile once again?
He and his wife took the painful decision to switch off their son's life support machine.
bubonic plague, a bacterial infection marked by painful, feverish, swollen lymph nodes, called buboes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Also known as dracunculiasis, from the Latin for "little dragons", the worm is a particularly painful water-borne parasite that can leave people weakened and sick for months every year. Medindia Health News
The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
If I cried a tear of painful sorrow,If I lost all hope for a new tomorrow,Would you dry my tear and ease my pain,Would you make me smile once again?
My hair was scraped back into a painfully tight and still considerably wet ponytail.
In a documentary set on Bodmin Moor the humour was unintentional and painful. Times, Sunday Times
My head throbbed with the force of a thousand attacks at once and I could feel the painful sensation worsening with each pulse of my heart.
Bloom's voice was too hoarse for the scream and the words left his throat in a painful screech.
This division between ins and outs had prompted a painful argument over the need to establish a forum for ministers from the ins, without causing a dangerous rupture from the outs.
About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
Holding her painful back, she sat down gingerly on the bench.
The letter S, for all26) its beauty, is not meant to support weight and so our backs fail, consistently and painfully.
This is a painful condition where lesions develop at the corners of your lips, and glossitis (inflammation of the tongue) can also occur.
The floor was strewn with roses, a detail that seems painfully poignant now. Times, Sunday Times
It may be painful but is always crucial to separate the fragility of the ego and the effectiveness of the writing.
But the bottom line, the reason why this is major news is you now have a U.S. president really trying to prod both sides to make what he called painful political concessions, to make difficult choices, and putting, basically, a deadline on it. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2008
If it turns out that your teenager is using drugs and has problems, you have something very painful to face.
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. Nathaniel Branden
Q. I keep getting painful mouth ulcers and have tried lots of treatments to clear them up. The Sun
It is the cathexis that makes love both exquisite and painful but it is the "will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual growth" that makes it endure. Archive 2008-07-01
It is a painful experience having the boil lanced.
An end to the delays that make a painful experience much worse. The Sun
She was so emotionally fragile that being sober was simply too painful.
And no other country has explored the painful parts of its history with such rigour and intensity. Times, Sunday Times
For years he tended her in her painful illness.
I listened, but caught no tone of her sharp voice, which usually came painfully from the back regions of the house; it would ill have harmonized with the sweet autumn day and the robin's song. John Halifax, Gentleman
Their hair was in big waves, crimped and curled after what I imagined was the collective effort of painful rollers, hot irons, and all-night slumber parties.
Reason told him he had to make a break no matter how emotionally painful the separation might be.
Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time, because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful. I miss you ,and miss you so much. Do you know there is someone thinking of you and caring you all the time ? Your smiling eyes are just like the sparkling stars hanging on the curtain of my heart.
Although their bite is extremely painful to man, they are not aggressive and most people are bitten while handling them.
That way can only lead to painful failure and the eating of considerable quantities of dust and dirt. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
In judo this might end up in a throw; in aikido, into a painful arm or body manipulation.
More important, the film personalized the athletes: the glint of confidence on Owens' face, the exhaustion of the marathoners as each painful step leads toward the stadium.
If not for you, I must be shivering in the despair and fear, groaning painfully. But for you, every day I will dream the most beautiful apart. Becoz u use your whole life to love me, and I feel free. My life seems to leave me like the sand flowing. I can hear that, but I can still smile only as long as I see you sleeping by my side.
The results of applying these dressings to skin previously affected by the shingles rash but still painful has proved highly effective. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, we are so painfully aware of the issues that we can spend hours talking about them.
Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future. Berlin film festival – review
When the animal suffers from podagra it does not shed the hoof, but is subject to a painful swelling in the feet. The History of Animals
The rapid finger movement of those who constantly send messages can lead to painful neck and shoulder injuries. The Sun
If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
When indisposition, therefore, confined her to the limits of her own apartment, our heroine adopted the same mode of conduct observed at the Hermitage, during Mrs. Bertram’s illness: — she sung, she read, she assisted Mrs. Ross in any piece of fine needle-work which happened to be in hands at the time; and, in short, endeavoured to soften the painful or tedious moments of distress by every possible means best calculated for the purpose. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
I am not sad, but the heart is very painful.
The disinterment is a very painful process," Chávez said. INTER PRESS SERVICE
She fell to the dirt like a doll, her arms breaking the fall painfully.
We will have lots of painful farewells. Christianity Today
We are all quite aware that he is a witch-burner reincarnate come to re-enact all the painful past.
Really painful blister on a foot. Times, Sunday Times
It must feel like that for the town's footballers as they make their own painful trawl around Britain. Times, Sunday Times
You know that painful burn in your muscles when you're exercising intensely, that's because of a build-up of lactic acid, right?
The construction sector is facing another painful year as government spending cuts bite. Times, Sunday Times
Restrictions deriving from religious beliefs that were intentionally mentioned in an interview could be indicative of a not insignificant religious atmosphere in the home that is pervasive and potentially painful to a child who is not used toit. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home
‘Now that,’ said Will, playfully pronging a sliver of bacon, ‘is painfully true.’
Progress was painfully slow: they had to test every fingerhold before they dared trust it with their weight.
May the Lord bless you, my sweet child," said the doctor, lifting one hand painfully and laying it in benediction on her fair and graceful head. The Hidden Hand
We are also acutely aware that completion of these and other outstanding items is painfully slow.
The pain is generally present without any palpation; for example, the painful abdomen associated with appendicitis.
A badly sunburned face or back is extremely painful.
The ripe fruit was used to provide external relief from carbuncles and painful boils and used internally to treat stomach ulcers.
You are looking for a painful emotion engram, an instant of loss which will discharge.
On his forehead resides a swollen, bluish bruise that is most likely throbbing painfully.
They spoke of how the marrow in their bones ached, how the blood throbbed painfully through clusters of tumors, tumors growing a life of their own and chewing away at their bodies. Rogue Oracle
The painful memories gradually receded in her mind.
If this sheath becomes inflamed, the tendon can no longer move within it and the wrist becomes painful, creaking like old leather when it is moved. Times, Sunday Times
“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety. Count Robert of Paris
The students and lecturers all have different motives for being there and these collide with painful consequences.
During the exam, your doctor may apply a cotton-tipped swab to the area to see if it is painful.
Defaults are always painful, for debtors and creditors alike. And so they should be.
A mouth ulcer is a painful sore in the mouth on either the cheeks or gums.
As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
By targeting receptors of a hormone called vasopressin, it is hoped that the investigational drug will prove effective in controlling the abnormal contractions that cause painful periods. THE MEDICAL NEWS
After much search, and lumbering painfully up two or three staircases in vain, and at last going about in a strange circuity, we found her in a small chamber of a large old building, situated a little way from the brow of the Tarpeian Rock. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
Then we had the 55-year-old woman who captained her local golf team while claiming her back was so painful she needed help getting out of the bath. The Sun
She has the mobile, expressive face of an intelligent, successful woman: but her limbs are helpless, twisted with painful spasms.
He has one particularly vivid memory from that painful time. Times, Sunday Times
Use foot file instead of hard pumice stone to remove dead skin which can lead to painful skin irritation.
That, overall, has been far less painful than my * back* was, but between weight loss and having not been to a chiro in over a year and not felt like I/needed/to go, and the once-gone ability to pop my lower back now returned, the ache from the lift is annoying enough that I'm going to try walking around for a while without it and see if I'm healed. miles to Isengard: 338 Slow on the uptake
Thankfully, according to Corinne, keeping flexible also doesn't mean following a painfully angelic diet.
What they see in the mirror is a hideously distorted vision of themselves which disgusts and horrifies them, often to the point when venturing out into the world is a painful and traumatic experience.
It's painful to imagine the planning meeting that produced this turgid number. Times, Sunday Times
The truth exposed is painful for senior officers and politicians. on February 20, 2010 at 11: 02 pm Tang0 ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
There are many times - in our obligation to be fair, accurate and authentic - when we must tell the painful truth with words and images.
Many sufferers complain the daily pricking of their fingers is more painful than having an injection due to the mass of nerve endings at their fingertips.
Applying for jobs can be a long and painful process.
his ignorance was painfully obvious
Physically, he looks no older than any man who will be 70 in February, but the spark, the MacLeod zest for life, has painfully and obviously gone.
The memory of Anthony and me standing in front of that mirror, both of us horrified by my fatty, slitty eyes, is still quite painful. Unbearable Lightness
Even today, scientists working with animals tend to think it sentimental to describe animals as feeling "pain" and generally replace the word "painful" with "nociception" in clinical trials. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.
And like many dairy cows, she often has mastitis, a painful udder inflammation, despite receiving antibiotics between lactations.
I wouldn't care success oilure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return . But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
The construction sector is facing another painful year as government spending cuts bite. Times, Sunday Times
They felt some of the impact of their painful and distressing symptoms had been eased.
Knee braces are supports that you wear for a painful or injured knee.
Big hugs or strong handshakes while sharing the peace can be painful for people with arthritis or rheumatic conditions.
I wouldn't care success oilure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return . But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
The interview was painful to watch.
Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.
Often what he expresses is the failure of sight, implying a painful or traumatic experience or image.
In his rich, patrician voice he would spin soaring, painfully funny metaphysical yarns from the apparent chaos of his life. Times, Sunday Times
Too late they discover that he is an underworld crime lord, and that crossing him results in an inevitable slow and painful death.
He was doing something much less drastic than severing a digit or limb, but still painful.
Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
It is painful to watch him displaying credentials that no longer carry much credence.
The general principle is that if there's something torn or painful in the disc, devices can be used to seal the torn bit, or to coagulate the tiny nerves that are detecting the damage in the disc.
The fool reined the horse, which for some time had been moving painfully, and at that abrupt cessation of motion the jestress looked up with a start. Under the Rose
It was painful at times and it brought a few waterworks.

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