To the eternal angst of everyone connected to the club, they raked over painful, old ground.
Why carry out a more painful, expensive ground incursion that risks the lives of its soldiers?
It is a curiosity of the opposition that not only is it silent on matters of policy, but it even waits for a minister to point out that New Labour's cock-ups were kinder than his, and felt a lot less painful on the ground.
If it was sufficiently unimportant that one painful moment was grounds to give it up, then we had made the wrong estimation".
We seek to dress in words that which might lie beyond language: a place where people attempt to make sense of new realities, and the painful shifts from losing ground to an illusory idea of feeling that ground again.
He tried to replicate the sensation by building a homemade glider out of aluminum tubes and plastic tarps, which succeeded only in providing scrapes and bruises after each painful encounter with the ground.
From James Kirkup, at the Telegraph: This speech was always going to be an agonising balancing act, poised between preparing the ground for painful spending cuts and describing the sunny uplands that are supposed to follow.
In general, he withstood the hot weather better than his team-mates, but his weak leg made fielding painful on the hard ground.
If Petraeus hopes that leaving on personal grounds, however painful, will forestall hard policy questions — and perhaps leave his political reputation intact — he is likely mistaken.
Puig covered a lot of ground on the painful catch, but it wasn't even his most memorable defensive effort.
