Sentence examples for painful exploration from inspiring English sources

Sondheim's musical Company, for instance, offers a more painful exploration of the masculine fear of commitment.

In 1973 Jones went on to make that classic film of Pinter's Betrayal, again with Irons, Kingsley and Patricia Hodge, that actually enhanced the work's painful exploration of interlocking infidelities.

Considered by many to be his masterpiece and by some to be the greatest of all films, Vertigo (1958) was a challenging, sometimes obscure, and painful exploration of identity, fantasy, and compulsion.

I defy anyone not to reel with delight at John Cheever's heartbreaking but hilarious 'Reunion', in which a young man's lunch with his seldom-glimpsed (and drunken) father disintegrates beyond our worst imaginations, nor to remain unmoved by the recently departed Grace Paley's painful exploration of death and disappointment.

In April Mr. Ferver shared a split bill with Neal Medlyn in "Extreme Behavior" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and his duet with Mr. Lane, "I Am Trying to Hear Myself," was a restless, visceral and often painful exploration of desire and violence.

Although the novel has not made a complete transition to the stage (it was hard to get a purchase on the play at first), this is an extraordinary evening: an involving, painful exploration, skilfully directed by John Tiffany, of national and sexual identity - the sectarian Scots pitched against a priest cursed with Englishness.

The result is that "Ishtar" has become synonymous with "absurdly expensive folly" when it should simply be seen as one of the strangest, deepest, funniest, most exuberant, and yet most painful comic explorations of the artistic life (and, for that matter, of American political chicanery worldwide) that exists.

It's a complex exploration of painful relationships between fathers and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, and old friends.

This might seem unexpected in the director of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, with their extremes of physical and emotional violence, but look past the cult status – built on the headlines inspired by 80s video nasty The Driller Killer – and what shines through in his work is a fearless, often painful but always exhilarating exploration of existential and spiritual faith.

Ledonne looked at the selection of the game as one of the competition's finalists in December as evidence that "all forms of art can be valid tools for societal exploration (even painful topics like school shootings)".

Obstacles in the parent's history are often referred to as "the ghosts in the nursery" [ 40], but together with the exploration of painful memories it can be valuable to identify "the angels in the nursery", i.e. the beneficial experiences [ 41].