Sentence examples for painful encounter from inspiring English sources
Catastrophizing is an automatic cognitive style characterized by 'the tendency to magnify the threat value of pain stimulus and to feel helpless in the context of pain, and by a relative inability to inhibit pain-related thoughts in anticipation of, during or following a painful encounter' [ 21].
He and his parents returned to California and chose to keep their distance after this painful encounter.
Rapt silence descends, in recognition of a painful encounter in which some truths are observed, with little reconciliation.
In the third story, he takes leave of his ex-wife after a quite comically painful encounter: "There is no urge to touch, to kiss, to embrace.
The boy's loss of his virginity on the kibbutz and the painful encounter 40 years later with the woman who seduced him.
After several fosterings she was adopted happily, but at 13 she secretly found her birth mother on Facebook, a painful encounter.
We urged Stanford's graduating class to be open to painful encounters.
Existing research has shown, furthermore, that simply viewing others in painful encounters (e.g., grasping a broken glass), leads to reliable activity within the somatosensory cortices, even within the PCG or S1 (see Keysers et al. 2010; Morrison et al. 2013).
But when Mildred betrays him again the spell is broken, and it's a relief to be told, after their painful final encounter, that Philip will not see her again.
Who are you?" It's painful to encounter such drastic self-negation in any form, let alone to imagine the difficulty it posed for Dickinson, whose chosen genre, lyric poetry, requires the cultivation of a strong individual voice.
Radio 4 Today programme's Mishal Husain appeared to be channelling Emily Maitlis's painful Newsnight encounter with Spike Jonze on Friday morning as she quizzed the artist Jake Chapman, known for causing scandals but here reluctant to be cast as a shock merchant (you can listen on BBC iPlayer Radio, the car crash begins to unfold at about 2 hours 45).
