Sentence examples for painful topic from inspiring English sources

Dementia is the great, painful topic for our generation.

Children are a painful topic to the Childs.

The divorce that followed is still a painful topic for Mr. MacKinnon.

The air between them thickened; with his own father, too, sex had been a painful topic.

Immigration is an intensely painful topic for a liberal like myself, because it places basic principles in conflict.

As the roasted chickens, tart yogurt milk and fried dough flowed out of the kitchen, the conversation turned to the once forbidden and still painful topic of the destruction that Mr. Hussein had caused in Iraq.

No mention of the environment, not much about Europe or the threatened repeal of human rights laws, another painful topic, though there was a generous appeal for Scotland to stay in the union.

Snickers and smiles aside, damage to players' delicate zones has recently become something of a more pressing, if not altogether painful, topic in the N.F.L., as there have been several high-profile incidents involving foot-to-groin contact.