Sentence examples for painful language from inspiring English sources

But there is sometimes room to use painful language to reclaim our own history.

Using the painful language of the majority opinion in Dred Scott as inspiration for a multicultural denunciation of empty-provocation rap: that right there is the Beatty touch.

If you get it, you may soon be dealing with the three worst words in the English language: painful, deadly diarrhea.

Just as her words revived painful truths about race and language, they have stirred up long-simmering issues in the culinary business, including accusations of industrywide racism and sexism; class divisions; and the fight over the true heritage of the region's food.

"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for scary stuff of all sorts, occasional rough language and painful-looking urination.

He's played by Stanley Townsend in a brilliantly painful performance, tics and broken language hinting at a hard-luck history we can only guess at.

In her introduction, Taylor says that she has come under fire for using "language that is painful," and indeed racial epithets appear often.

After criticising some of Owen's poems, amending others and praising a few, Sassoon did what the younger poet considered the great honour of reading him his latest works, one of which struck Owen as "the most exquisitely painful war poem of any language or time".

Don't feel guilty about your involvement in the slow and painful death of the English language either.

I found it painful to expose my thoughts in language that to him obscured more than it revealed".

Perhaps the only surprise is that a man who acknowledges the job is proving "painful" had resisted resorting to foul language for so long.