"Buying a fractional is basically painless, because for all intents and purposes, it's an American transaction.
Similarly, support for Android and Windows 8 coming "in future," says Cohen. (harmon.ie for iPad is HTML5-based, he says, which makes it relatively painless to provision it for all HTML5-based platforms).
The most that can be said about the lottery's healthy profits -- roughly $1.5 billion a year -- is that they represent a politically painless way to raise money for all state operations, including education.
It's all remarkably painless for Hopkins, though not for audiences, who may need to check their vital signs after enduring three hours of inspirational waffle just to see him stroll across a symbolic bridge.
At some point the administration may be forced to conclude that the best option for all involved is to make foreclosure as painless as possible, and to help turn struggling borrowers into relieved renters.
For all its scintillating cleverness, it yields to a self-satisfied moralism to set up a final, painless twist that fuses virtue and pleasure, public good and private happiness.
Even a complete move to DC plans for all future pension entitlements will not reduce the cost of promises already made.The absence of a painless solution may simply encourage governments to push the bill further into the never-never.
The film has gone through several mutations, not all of which were painless for its author.
For all its financial might and political firepower, Ms. Quinn's once high-flying bid for mayor has suddenly plummeted back to earth, shedding its coveted front-runner status and foreclosing the possibility of a painless path to City Hall.
It was a short-lived piece of software that made making DVD movie backups fairly painless too painless for Hollywood, which immediately took RealNetworks to court, claiming all sorts of copyright infringement hokum.
All this would be fairly painless for employers.
