Love is a blessing even if it ends painfully, for heartbreak bears great wisdom.
Even within painfully revised parameters, she wanted, somehow, to have been wanted.
But the injunction to work for social justice, a process that might fail and, even if successful, can be painfully slow, is small comfort when you face someone in immediate dire need.
Even if one has – or painfully acquires, or borrows from other current scholars – the breadth of reference to understand the source of an allusion or citation, it is not always clear what the citation is doing there, and what Hamann means to suggest by referring to it.
Even if it's a painfully slow checker at the local grocery.
Reflect on its many parts, on some of the causes that brought it into being, and on its inherent transience (even if it's a painfully long transience!).
While her cell-like installations might be more theatrically tragic, these small, scrawled images from 1994's Autobiographical Series and 1999's 11 Drypoints are, if anything, even more painfully sensitive.
After visiting the cities of southern Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers I was left with the impression that in the Shia heartlands, development is painfully slow even if it is more evident than in Baghdad.
It is a matter of wonderment to outsiders and of vexation to a number of insiders that proud nations have agreed to share power in many spheres, even if the decision-taking can be painfully slow.
Even at that painfully late stage, there could have been a winner.
They're already receiving monthly checks (even if their cost of living increases are painfully small and some are already struggling to make ends meet). But they know what their living expenses are in retirement.
