It's not perhaps a very subtle version, and I felt that Kurzel should have perhaps worked more closely with Fassbender with the contours of his speeches, and shown the painful mind-changing and nerve-losing in the early stages.
In America, the relationship between doctors and the hegemonic pharmaceutical industry is fraught with painful, mind-numbing contradiction.
The history of slavery is so painful and mind-bending, she says, that teaching anything meaningful in an hour seems impossible.
"Post-racial" is a mythical idea that should be as painful to the mind's ear as fingernails on the chalkboard are to the outer ear.
In my opinion, a woman like Isabelle would be much more vulnerable, in a much more difficult and painful frame of mind, than she seems in the film.
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.
On Hume's theory the virtues and vices are understood as simply pleasurable or painful qualities of mind (cp. T, 3.1.2).
Lochte's plans aren't as clear, but a strained groin has turned these trials into a painful test of mind over the searing reality with every kick in the breaststroke.
The drive is painful, as my mind races through all the things I need to say to help this person, to make one of the most emotionally scarring events in their life somewhat bearable.
At worst it might turn out painful, boring or mind-numbingly repetitive, but it looks so damn shiny on the tin and that's what matters on a bored Saturday night.
It's actually easy to get used to pain or something painful it you put your mind to it.
