If the food is not prepared skillfully, it will be painfully obvious to the diner.
That is the question at the core of "Off Pitch," a flaky reality show that begins on Wednesday night on VH1, and as long as it can keep you guessing about the answer, it will be painfully fun to watch.
And those that do not receive injections could come under pressure to find partners, since it will become painfully obvious to investors they did not receive the government's seal of approval.
If you don't have a clue which experimental approach to follow, it will be painfully obvious here if you've simply described them all.
Just be careful: when used poorly it will be painfully obvious that your pictures are Photoshopped.
Miliband needs to call this what it is: a colossal rip-off of the real middle class – and a guarantee that the middle class will painfully wither if it carries on.
This will painfully unfold over the next few weeks, months and even years.
And since 1998, I have been arguing in private, as Tony Blair will painfully testify, that we have to connect those achievements with the values that brought them about.
Give them a full week to memorize any Shakespeare sonnet ("Hey," I tell them, "pick a really famous one — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — and you've already got the first line down"), and a number of them will painfully falter.
But already Lola is closer to Will, whom she sees almost every day, than to her own grandchildren, and she rejects a higher paying job with another couple to continue working for Claire and Paul — loyalty, she will painfully learn, that is not reciprocated.
