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Example sentences for: painful

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For instance, I was well past 30 when I was reading an advertisement aloud: “Do you suffer the painful humiliation of psoriasis?”
Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.
His performance on election night last November, and again after Tuesday's State of the Union Address, was painful to behold.
Most painful is the fact that this book is filled with factual errors, glib and misleading generalizations, and careless misstatements.
It is this obsession and lust for knowledge that caused the human condition (suffering, evil, painful childbirth, etc.) in the first place: Eve's craving for enlightenment is what led her to eat from the tree of knowledge, after which God expelled her and Adam from paradise.