Sentence examples for painful idea from inspiring English sources

Both actors are happily married, and they said that their performances drew partly on the painful idea of what their lives would be like without their spouses.

One says: it is a painful idea that our existence is of very little use; I have left my friends, I have left plenty.

This would affect deductions for charitable giving, mortgage interest and state and local taxes a particularly painful idea for high earners in a time when states are raising their top individual income tax rates.

She also made fundamental contributions to understanding how the ego, or consciousness, functions in averting painful ideas, impulses, and feelings.

I can't tell you how painful the idea of singing 'Like a Virgin' or 'Material Girl' (1984) is to me now.

As painful as that idea sounds to some people here, many historic homes and structures elsewhere have been moving into private hands in recent years amid declining attendance and revenues for the nonprofit groups that often own them.

We don't really have books like Trelawny's Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author or Edmund Gosse's Gossip in a Library, so Lethem's account of his time at Bennington, alongside Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt, is eyebrow-raising – especially the way in which his anxiety about not being somehow disguised in The Secret History is marginally more painful than the idea that he is in it.

Celibacy is a bad idea with painful consequences.

The implications of Sterling's idea are painful for Twitter types.

You have got no idea how painful it is to be stuck in your top-of-the-range BMW behind two Dutch caravans trying to overtake each other at walking speed on their way to the Alps.

The summer brings its own issues, since we get a ton of first-time clients who have no idea how painful waxing can be.