Sentence examples for painful trial from inspiring English sources

Was it the end product of painful trial and error or a sudden blinding revelation?

But since then, the community has faced what many consider an even more painful trial.

After more treatment Hewitt pulled back once more, only to face the ultimately painful trial of a tie-break.

After a long period of painful trial and error, American forces became quite adept at counter-insurgency in Iraq.

But it was also caught by a faction of people who will add their own emotional note to an already painful trial.

It has been a genuinely painful trial by omission, a tale of carelessness and suspicion from which nobody emerges with credit.

In both operas, the love of a prince and a maiden endures after a long separation and painful trials.

Ben Jones, the executive director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, said capital cases by their nature delay justice and subject victims to painful trials.

Crosby, by contrast, resists any impulse to impart lessons, shrugging off the narrative arc that "carries the troubled subject through painful trials to livable accommodations … and all too often sounds the note triumphant".

Relationships, too, involved painful trial-and-error.

Across the painful trials, subjects also showed greater torque variability for the higher level of forces.