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Example sentences for: painful

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This process of integration is rooted in a deep-seated longing for the possible, informed by the lived experience of the painful.
One can want a particular practice to be rare just because it is painful, even if it is morally required (and not just permissible).
...Painful, try helping prove you're delighted by supersentences that prevail.
Smith slyly echoes Scorsese's film when Rickman's Voice of God, attempting to convert the reluctant Bethany to his cause, explains that Jesus didn't take it any better when told of the painful destiny that awaited him: "I had to deliver the news to a scared child who only wanted to play with other children."
Elvis' decline was slow, bloated, and painful, and writing about it in an interesting fashion is more difficult than charting the star's dazzling rise was.