In pained states of rage and elation, he pictures his supportive friends as fellow victims of the insensate mob.
And his banter with the radio host Alan Grant reveals glimpses of character: he's courteous but sober, pained at the state of the world.
I feel I let my teammates down," a visibly pained Fu told state-broadcaster CCTV in a brief poolside conversation following the race.
This involved some minor theatrics — Wilmore jumped from chair to chair as he alternated between interviewer and host — as he mixed jokes with perceptive, and pained, comments on the state of our nation.
My grandmother is clearly dying, trapped in some pained transitional state.
In 1913, Chabas stated that he was "pained and humiliated" by the controversy over September Morn, though he later expressed more positive views.
Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Telegraph of London, "The journey Postlethwaite takes is beautifully shaded, by turns semi-serious, pensive and pained before arriving, touchingly, at some dazed, carefree state where madness has become his sole means of self-preservation".
Told by a reporter about the concerns of Davon, Elizabeth and Patrick, the would-be Harvard student, the state education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, said he was pained.
The federal government, having gathered to itself all power seems mired in the limitations of imposed authority... Indeed, our state might be described as one of pained hypnosis..
But some Iraqis themselves seemed pained that they lacked a uniform vision as they act now to build a free and functioning state from scratch.
