Sentence examples for painful proposition from inspiring English sources

Pitching on a knee that needs surgery is a painful proposition, but one that he is trying to enjoy.

Laser can be a scary and painful proposition, but the team of skilled and warm technicians will put even the most skeptical and nervous person at ease.

That's a particularly painful proposition for women.

"That thItg is bigger than mine!" Follow Chris Edwards on Twitter.

But one possibility is this: Having learned through painful experience to recognize a losing proposition, he has no intention of being left holding the bag for this one.

Let's recall our painful defeat in California's passage of Proposition 8 in 2008, when LGBTs didn't get the level of support many expected from other discriminated-against groups.

Really, mentions of "sub-paragraphed propositions" and "paginated bundle" (sounds painful...) shouldn't have made it passed an editor.

But its game-changing follow-up, Malibu, is a much deeper proposition, full of long-buried and painful childhood memories, transformed into bittersweet melodies and woozy, punch-drunk raps.

All good horror stories are metaphors, and this is one for the painful isolation of contemporary life, but with a literal and chilling proposition: maybe death does not bring welcome oblivion.

The problem is that politicians generally want to keep their jobs, and they highly doubt the proposition that voters can be persuaded to embrace even modestly painful solutions in an unforgiving political environment.

This year, it was especially painful when, close to the election and to the California vote on Proposition 8 to rescind the rights of gay couples to marry, Barack Obama said he believes "marriage is between a man and a woman".