Sentence examples for painful impression from inspiring English sources

"I scarcely dare tell you the painful impression I received," he confided to his sister.

Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed.

He portrays the autobiographical central character, who joins his estranged father's new family for a fraught six-month stay that leaves a lasting, painful impression.

The eyes of the people who looked at their Nazi or Fascist leader used invariably to give me a strong but painful impression.

I cannot say why, but I had the painful impression that I was not the first, on that beautiful, sun-drenched day, to press her against the ground and possess her.

For sheer sacrifice and disregard for ego, Ellen Burstyn, who won an Oscar in 1974 in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, makes a searingly painful impression as the addicted widow in Requiem For a Dream.

Fripp's company have developed a process in which the patient's face is 3D-scanned, avoiding the need for a sometimes painful and invasive impression, and the specific contours then added to a digital model of the new prosthetic part, to create a perfect fit every time.

These were visually identical but non-painful, giving the impression that the 'treatment worked'.

It fell to him to manage an inescapable and inescapably painful downsizing, and my impression is that he handled that aspect of his job about as well as one could under the circumstances.

One may reject the notion that madness is somehow liberating (I do), but it's a fact of experience, familiar from Outsider art, that painful dissociation can produce impressions of aesthetic cogency.

Severn wrote: "After the death of Keats the impression was so painful on my mind that I made an effort to call up the last pleasant remembrance … This was at the time he first fell ill & had written the Ode to [a] Nightingale [1819] on the morning of my visit to Hampstead.