Sentence examples for painful kind from inspiring English sources

They also discovered a more painful kind of postseason running game.

So I was free of her, but at the same time I knew the most painful kind of jealousy.

Although this might sound like an exhausting and even painful kind of relationship, it keeps the energy flowing.

A year ago, my friend found out that she had a really dire, painful kind of cancer.

There's the man who suffers from cluster headaches, which are said to be the most painful kind.

If we could play the All Blacks every week we could learn quickly, even if it would be a painful kind of way to learn.

They were still a joy to watch at times, albeit a slightly painful, chafing kind of joy.

Turning serious, she referred to the story of her film, about girlfriends stumping for John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election, as she spoke about the influence of the filmmaker Nora Ephron, who died last June, "in terms of taking issues that are painful and kind of fear-ridden for women and finding the humor in them".

"It was painful and kind of sad because we'd made lots of plans for that year.

"As a home for a great institution," the critic Lewis Mumford wrote, "it is a painful simulacrum, the kind of thing Hollywood might have faked".

So if it – the fame, the recognition – stopped tomorrow, would that be a relief, or would it, in fact, be awful: a painful loss, a kind of living death?