Sentence examples for exquisite pain from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'exquisite pain' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an extreme sensation of pain that is both intense and strangely pleasurable, usually in a metaphorical sense. For example, "The memory of the betrayal was an exquisite pain that he knew would stay with him forever."
The exquisite pain of unrequited love.
Exquisite Pain (2003) was prompted by her then lover's failure to meet her in New Delhi.
Sophie Calle's "Exquisite Pain" (2000), a series of embroidered texts paired with photographs, also feels overexposed.
Sebastian, Exquisite Pain," a 12-foot-high vitrine containing a black calf pierced by arrows.
Outside Hertford House, which houses the Wallace Collection, he has set up a sculpture of St Bartholomew flaying himself, entitled Exquisite Pain.
In June, architect Frank Gehry turns set designer, surrounding "Exquisite Pain", a confessional presentation by French artist Sophie Calle, with aluminium and glass in Rotonde 1.
This Boston production has gone to exquisite pains to recall Louis XIV's France.
The suspension of the much-resented parking rules, as much a part of the city's traffic psyche as congestion in the Lincoln Tunnel, has been one of the few true pleasures in a winter of exquisite pains.
She was talking about one of her favorite shots, of butter melting and sizzling in a pan, and she had taken exquisite pains to make sure it was just so, to make sure that anyone with any sort of appetite at all would see it and feel his mouth water, his stomach rumble.
As a child, I suffered exquisite psychological pain, about which no one cared at all, and while I managed, I almost died on a number of occasions over the ensuing four decades.
Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.
