Sentence examples for dark painful from inspiring English sources

"It was a dark, painful time.

It's dark, painful and indelibly grotesque, yet it's also tender.

"She has this very dark, painful sense of humor," Mr. Cullman said, "which like all good humor comes from a place of truth.

I'm so smitten that the temptation to gush is near overwhelming, but there is also a dark, painful side to Midnight's Children.

I was surprised at how few adult novels focus on woods and forests, but this classic novel has long been one of my favourite bedtime reads: astonishingly sexy as well as dark, painful and gloriously romantic.

I can't think of anyone else who had such utterly dark, painful experiences and yet was able to present them in a funny way that never detracted from the seriousness behind them.

She made Jenny's sex scenes "darker, painful, and sometimes not so pretty to watch".

The rest is a dark and painful excursion into Ireland's anguished past.

"In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over.

His emotional investment in his characters is offset by engaging antics that deflect bathos and refine dark and painful doings to a single, sharp point.

While Fake It 'Til You Make It is filled with heart and comedy, it is often dark and painful to watch.