Sentence examples for a painful work from inspiring English sources

Yet "1959" is a painful work, full of strangled, raw emotions — and a certain vulnerable toughness that feels inimitably New York.

Our membership signed off on that deal after four months of a painful work stoppage.

The event haunts Shepard's 2000 play, The Late Henry Moss - an often painful work in which Shepard's sense of humour failed him, or was abandoned.

But then it realised, after a lot of painful work, that it had gathered a bunch of non-combatants.

He believes the government "realised, after a lot of painful work, that it had gathered a load of non-combatants" and "is stuck with the problem, but it is not willing to… disclose the truth about the whole operation".

Two weeks before the workshop date she scrapped months of painful work and quickly and joyously drafted a new play set in a North Philly bar modeled on one her stepfather owned.

But to preserve a fragile coalition of powerful stakeholders, state leaders put off the painful work of cutting costs, and the slumping economy made the problem worse.

Nonetheless, Beck and his immediate predecessor and mentor, current New York police commissioner Bill Bratton, have done much of the slow and painful work of reforming the LAPD since the riots and a major police corruption scandal that broke out in one of its elite anti-gang units a few years later.

The drafting of Ms Gillard's next chapter could be painful work.

But truth-telling is slow and painful work, and Kiev often opts for misinformation of its own instead.

And nearly two months after the torrential rains ravaged the country, the painful work of rebuilding is only just beginning.