Sentence examples for less pained from inspiring English sources

But these characters are no less pained for their lack of doubt.

-- is emblazoned on trucks and tanks, the people who run the place are no less pained by the cost of insurance.

She seemed less pained by the thought that trusted adults could do something bad, and more excited by her own power of refusal: "If anyone tries to touch me there I'll tell them NO, and then I'll tell you!" Her adamancy filled me with pride.

She'd been deeply shaken by the undercover officer but promised to talk to me later, when she was "less tired and less pained".

The look on Mr. Gingrich's face seemed only slightly less pained than it was a few moments earlier when an event intended to show his strength in the two early-voting states — his campaign flew William O'Brien, the speaker of the New Hampshire House, here to Iowa — was disrupted by protesters.

She makes a decent action heroine, never less than pained and strained, but for her it's like playing a single octave on the piano.

Murphy's vocals were described as a combination of "a less-pained Billie Holiday and a less-sheltered Doris Day".

She's no less stoic or pained when she finally gets to the point: "I hate to see you leave/But I love to watch you go".

I couldn't have cared less, but he looked pained.

There's a different sort of urgency, one that is more pained and less deliberate, to Gatsby's character.

What was once a flurry of outstretched arms is now a pained clenching of fists, less dramatic but maybe more biting.