Sentence examples for in this painful from inspiring English sources

I needed desperately to recapture that spirit in this painful year.

From a young age, I have intermittently found myself in this painful, barren zone.

In this painful civil war both sides make harsh allegations of rule-breaking, hypocrisy, greed and deceit.

"Why does he live on in this painful and humiliating way even though I curse him and want to tear him out of my heart?

The larger question, of course, is what's keeping those players going even as they engage in this painful simulation of playing hockey.

India have yet to taste success against Australia in this painful series, but they certainly recorded a convincing win over the International Cricket Council yesterday and as a result have agreed to continue the tour.

In telling this painful story, history curators have many resources from which to draw, prominent among them "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," a report issued by the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama.

Given their hand in abetting this painful dilemma, the new Democrats seemed made for the already existing sobriquet -- a kind of curse invented by the populist right -- "limousine liberal".

The only way to stop participating in this dreadful and painful business of factory food production is not just to enact "laws that impose basic standards on farm conditions," but also to become a vegetarian.

In any case, this painful episode in Bangladesh is a reminder that the struggle to achieve gender equality isn't simply a battle between the sexes.

After he won the Nobel prize in 2001, and possibly in acknowledgement of this painful personal story, he found a passage in Proust's essay Against Sainte-Beuve to elucidate his deepest self, using his Nobel speech to headline it.