Sentence examples for painful possibility from inspiring English sources

The realisation that Dundee United may not have any silverware to show for their marvellous season was becoming a painful possibility.

In the course of this interrogation, Marcia went through most of the girls on the estate before working herself round to the painful possibility of Leah and finding the confirmation in her daughter's face.

However, there's another painful possibility.

Filmmaker Jim Owen brings this painful possibility into a hilariously deadpan, and ultimately bittersweet, reality in the 2010 short film Can We Talk?

Shredded fingers, though rare, are a seriously painful possibility that can require medical attention.

Among the most painful possibilities are a billion dollars less for public schools, increases in university student fees, layoffs and tons of new taxes.

The use of oral sucrose before and during painful procedures offers new possibilities for pain relief.

Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for operations, did little, in an interview, to reassure labor about the possibility of painful cuts.

The image is a classic specimen of both artists' ambiguous national vision: black and white; advancing and retreating; the sky's open possibility made painful, and somehow more real, by whatever lies beneath.

We hope that this case report makes physicians aware of the possibility of painful IOP elevation during HD in uveitis patients with a compromised outflow facility.

My suffering, however painful, is always qualified by the possibility of failure, the possibility that, despite everything, I'll become like other men and break my word at last; her death, by removing that possibility, would remove the sole thought that relieves my anguish.