Sentence examples for painful reading from inspiring English sources

These early sections make gloriously painful reading.

Comparisons with regional neighbours make for painful reading.

Today, these optimistic forecasts make rather painful reading.

Mary Shelley's journals after Shelley's death make painful reading.

This part of Stanford's book makes for painful reading.

The details are painful reading, but we have heard this story before.

A painful read.

The result is a pretty painful read.

At times, it makes for a painful read.

The Goshawk is a painful read, and I still find White's relationship with his hawk very difficult to bear.

It's a shocking, upsetting, often painful read; but Mantel's rich capacity for amusement and the sheer power of the writing save it from unremitting bleakness.