He considered poetry a means of confronting pain as a step towards healing.
It may be difficult to imagine why three generations of a family would choose to work in a mental hospital, confronting pain, confusion and intermittent violence.
Tavener even says he is grateful for the experience, but it's still surprising that this apparently most serene of composers should choose a work that confronts pain and death in such a stark and uncompromising way.
You need to forge your own dictionary.' This willingness to confront pain and to forge his own cinematic dictionary has informed the blend of innocence and brutality that is a trademark of del Toro's phantasmagorical cinema.
We've spent nine weeks strengthening our attention, building awareness of our bodies, and learning to confront pain in ourselves and in others and throughout the course, male students were dropping out like 12th-seeded teams in the NCAA basketball tournament.
But having opened large wounds, the stories seem over-eager to pour balm on them, as if the real impulse isn't so much to confront pain as to move as quickly as possible to that state of mournful grace so beloved of contemporary American writers.
I woke up to see a skateboarder rubbing his injured leg against a rail while a voiceover talked about the importance of confronting pain.
In the wake of a young boy's death, eight Māori female characters confront pain and endure personal trials within their whānau and wider community.
However, after the initial shock and effect of a performance piece like Bob Flanagan's, in which he confronts "pain-based pleasure," the viewer is left with precious little visual information, and, ultimately, nothing to return to or reflect on.
It may well be the case that the effects of regulative temperament factors on pain catastrophizing only become evident when individuals are actually confronted with pain.
