Sentence examples for painful reflection from inspiring English sources

The prevailing view among policymakers is that unemployment is a painful reflection of the economy's weakness.

Many of us do not see ourselves in the works on display and when we do, it is often a painful reflection.

Now, with 100 games remaining in 2008, the Mets (30-32) theil the Phillies by an almost identical margin, a painful reflection of last September's nightmare.

Mr. Davis's absence elicited moments of painful reflection, according to those close to him, including Kay McGlashan, the administrative director of Stop the Violence.

Today, with years of painful reflection behind him, Thornton has coined a phrase, "chaotic creativity", for the maelstrom of emotions that swirls beneath the typical family business balance sheet.

This episode provoked painful reflection among French policymakers, particularly Alain Juppe, who was foreign minister at the time.

If his tone suggests trace elements of entitlement, they're tempered by his painful reflections about his beloved late wife, Bella, from whom he was inseparable, whether in New York City, at the house in Connecticut, or at the apartment in Paris.

In his brilliant essay "In Praise of Inconsistency," published in Dissent in 1964, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski argued that, given that we are regularly confronted with equally valid choices where painful ethical reflection is in order, being inconsistent is the only way to avoid becoming a doctrinaire ideologue who sticks to an algorithm.

They are empathetic and thoughtful, sometimes through painful experience, reflection and introspection.

The similarities with Bouton's book, he said, will come with the honest, sometimes painful self-reflection, and the inevitable disapproval of some readers.

Instead, parables call us to honest, often painful self-reflection.