Sentence examples for much painful from inspiring English sources

He understands that voters cannot be asked to bear too much painful reality, at least before polling day.

"He was a bitter persecutor," remarked his political opponent Lord Holland, "of such political and religious principles as he, without much painful inquiry or dispassionate reflection, disapproved".

It is as if he had started out with a pearl and after much painful and passionate labour had fashioned round it a craggy, thick and sharp-edged shell.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

Although some of the economic change necessary to prepare China for membership has already taken place, much painful restructuring still remains to be carried out, and with it the risk of growing public resentment.A WTO working-party in Geneva was this week putting the finishing touches to the document spelling out the terms of China's accession.

While many ancient individuals, known and unknown, contributed to the subject, none equaled the impact of Euclid and his Elements of geometry, a book now 2,300 years old and the object of as much painful and painstaking study as the Bible.

This makes the injury feel much more painful, and can make the pain last for longer than is beneficial.

The sore had previously been created by much more painful means, such as cautery or even burning charcoal.

How much more painful is poverty for the caretakers.

The second time could be much more painful, economists warn.

But much less painful than, say, actually working.