Sentence examples for painful material from inspiring English sources

There is no Freudian defense mechanism that banishes painful material from consciousness.

This is painful material, and Cobb handles it with gentle acuity.

"And Brett's whiteness perhaps gives him a degree of distance necessary for wading around in this intensely painful material".

She might let her hair go gray; she wanted to travel; working on such painful material was depressing.

Revisiting some of the painful material in the novel was "like waking a dead woman," she said, so Mr. Mille wrote the difficult scenes on his own.

The cartoonish po-mo aesthetics—a blood stain that spreads into the shape of a heart, as Brenda Lee sings "I'm Sorry"—let us keep a safe distance from painful material.

You present yourself as somebody dealing with painful, horrifying material that you want to turn away from but that you engage with.

In a therapeutic context, it may enable unflinching consideration of painful emotional material without the patient experiencing negative affect – that is, without being so distressed by traumatic memories that they are unable to confront and process them.

There is a sense that the author has transmuted an amount of painful autobiographical material, and that he needed to do so; as in Naipaul's work, the pages seem scarred with remembered wounds.

"Keep the Lights On," which opens Sept. 7, is a balancing act typical of this director of "Forty Shades of Blue" (2005): a film based on highly intimate and painful autobiographical material that doesn't rely on audience members having that knowledge to exert a hold on them.

It is a normal response that professionals experience who are exposed to painful, traumatic material.