Sentence examples for painful tasks from inspiring English sources

According to de Jouvenel, an atmosphere of "facility" corrupted everything, and people had become increasingly unwilling to take on painful tasks.

Our society has constructed a model in which a small group of men and women take on the painful tasks of war for all of us and unfairly bear its costs.

"By consistently overriding their selfish impulses in order to help others, they had strengthened their psychological muscles, to the point where using willpower for painful tasks was no longer exhausting," writes Grant of the study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University.

Thinking about it will just make it worse Finish off any more bothersome and painful tasks so you don't have to do them later.

Not just avoidance behaviour, but also painful task persistence might be a risk factor for development and maintenance of pain complaints.

"Why do I do such a painful task?" she said.

After that comes the more painful task of demolition.

But soon enough they were faced with the painful task of allocating what proved to be an extremely limited resource.

Grant, then a medical student, has the painful task of naming what has hitherto only been a fear.

On Sunday, families of victims performed the painful task of collecting their loved ones' belongings from police.

But the main foreign governments involved in the painful task of negotiation Britain, Italy, Norway and America must not give up.