That sense of the treacherous familiarity of blood ties is played to the hilt but never painfully embodied here.
"Let me just remind everyone," says Michael McGrath, eyes stretched painfully wide, "you're never gonna own a Mercedes.
Recently The Onion wrote a scathing article celebrating a week without a shooting, though just after publishing they had to update with the truthful and painfully telling words "Never mind".
Being in gatherings only makes him painfully aware he can never escape his solitude.
Robert Alan. 5 years today, painfully brokenhearted, the tears never go away.
Sometimes the worst times are the best times for confessions: perspective is never more painfully sharp.
This aching gap between the reality of my existence and my subconscious expectation of it is never more painfully illustrated than when I consider my holiday allowance.
AN imaginary city: this is a time for such a vision, especially for New Yorkers, whose city has always been in flux, though perhaps never more painfully and self-consciously than today.
He has reached three finals here, losing to Roger Federer on all three occasions, never more painfully or poignantly than the last time, in 2009, when he served into the late, late afternoon and ended up losing, 16-14, in the fifth set.
But there he would be: a once tall man hunched over in a wheelchair, carefully ironed Hawaiian shirt, denim shorts, crocheted rasta hat covering his bald patch, sandals on feet now shaped like bags of flour, painfully swollen because he never got to use them any more.
