Sentence examples for painful core from inspiring English sources

It also distances and distracts, throwing up a cordon sanitaire around the novel's painful core.

Auburn's shrewdness and craft, Daniel Sullivan's sensitive direction, and both actors' openness give the story a poignant, painful core.

Nanni Moretti, the director of Dear Diary, an engaging 1993 comedy, was quoted as saying his new movie "contains a painful core, but wrapped in a light tone".

Hittman's second feature makes talk and its absence among rough-and-tumble South Brooklyn teens the painful core of its story.

Sarah Churchwell observes that the simplistic satire of Joyce Carol Oates's "My Sister, My Love" (Aug. 10) "distances and distracts, throwing up a cordon sanitaire around the novel's painful core," as though this were a central failing of the novel.

A new movie that ignores that narrow-minded and prejudicial convention is Steven Soderbergh's "Logan Lucky"; another, Eliza Hittman's second feature, "Beach Rats," confronts it brilliantly, making talk and its absence among rough-and-tumble South Brooklyn teens the painful core of the film.

This is the novel's inner core, its painful essence.

The wounded feelings are always being created by the protective, controlling, addictive behaviors we engage in to avoid the painful, existential core feelings.

To quit is to apparently suffer the painful loss of core identity.

This defeat was painful for the core of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and coach Dan Bylsma that seemed pointed toward a dynasty after winning the 2009 Stanley Cup.

"It can be fun and informing or it can be painful when those core, foundational, defining beliefs and ways of seeing things enter into competition.