Sentence examples for painful act from inspiring English sources

It was quite a professional undertaking to make drama out of such a complete and painful act of self-denial.

From his tight-muscled posture to his pinched, effortful voice, Mr. Shannon here suggests someone for whom continuing to live is a painful act of labor.

It is a Zen exchange in which a pupil becomes enlightened by being taken out of his usual mindset through some painful act by the master.

Dombrowski, in the most painful act of his impressive career, dutifully dismantled the champions, trading his good veteran (read: high-priced) players or letting them go as free agents.

Red Square has seen a lot over the centuries, from public executions to giant military parades, but a performance artist broke new ground on Sunday when he nailed his scrotum to cobblestones in a painful act of protest.

The stories are painful acts of reclamation.

Around the world, people are speaking out against the shameful cruelty of confining animals to cramped cages, hauling them around in lorries and forcing them to perform unnatural, demeaning and sometimes painful acts.

It is about misogyny, and creating an environment in which it becomes a normalised part of popular culture, that is objectionable - that people expect women to engage in humiliation and painful acts.

The site thumbed its nose publicly at its detractors in interviews with Wired, Vanity Fair, Forbes and other news outlets and its administrators publicly posted their retorts to cease-and-desist letters, including repeated suggestions that media company lawyers perform painful acts on their nether regions with a retractable baton.

Boycotting other Jews is a painful, unnatural act.

They said that their ruling reflected a painful balancing act for the judiciary.