Sentence examples for painful discussions from inspiring English sources

Communication was very poor and medical staff sometimes dodged painful discussions with patients and families, the review found.

Those bad times involved the collective embarking on "painful" discussions on how best to tackle issues such as sexuality and racism, said O'Sullivan.

With so many different threads of feminism being explored, the ensuing debates were often acrimonious, and the magazine reflected the sometimes "painful" discussions between the collective on how best to tackle issues such as sexuality and racism.

Try to make it a rule that avoiding painful discussions about something that's bothering one of you is not an option.

The "painful discussion" could no longer be avoided.

He said he would lead the nation in a "difficult and painful discussion" about race.

Later, they have a painful discussion about their sexual track records.

Still, rules should be more carefully drawn so that not every painful discussion opens a psychiatric file or medication list to the eyes of a commanding officer.

And there is a reluctance to acknowledge that Isis and its affiliates in Yemen, Nigeria and elsewhere have anything to do with Islam and the raging, painful discussion about its potential reform.

The unexpected entrance of a servant relieved us from a painful discussion, but from that time onwards there was a tacit understanding between us that the hypnotic treatment should be discontinued.

In their painful discussion of it at Jessa's wedding (filmed in splendidly tight and urgent dual closeups), Hannah cites her fixation on her work — on what she calls the "actual things I'd like to achieve before I focus on things like that" (i.e., their relationship).