Few comprehend this as painfully as Orser.
I fear I'll die as painfully as I deserve.
He never delves as painfully as Gissing does into the threadbare texture of Victorian literary life.
In life he had to live through it as painfully as anyone else.
King Philip, whose emotional world collapses not quite as painfully as Lear's, weathers his storms and knuckles under to the Inquisition, sacrificing love to power.
The tactics creaked as painfully as the veterans and Fabio Capello's ponderous 4-4-2 would have made players lumber even if they still had a spring in their step.
At this base, Camp St.-Mère St.-Mèrefully as anywhere in Iraq, America is at war, and the burden falls mainly on the division's Third Brigade -- the White Devils -- who arrived here from Fort Bragg, N.C., four months ago.
The rich may, as Fitzgerald had it, be "different from you and me," but their children can suffer as painfully as any others from neglect by irresponsible parents and from the trauma of dislocation.
Lucious Harris's eyes were red from tears that were about to start again, dropping as painfully as the improbable shot that had crashed like an anvil to end tonight's game.
But he had a weakness for the "halo of power", of whatever colour, and a soft spot for old autocrats still carrying, like Simón Bolívar in "The General in his Labyrinth", their bullet scars, their memories of past glories and their faded battle tunics, with buttons made from the gold of Atahualpa.Writing was difficult; the words came as painfully as kidney stones.
Low-cost airlines have also had a disappointing 2004, though not quite as painfully as their debt-laden counterparts.
