This first stint, at Perpignan, ended painfully after only five games.
My first reading, as a teenager, brought me painfully through only a tiny fraction of it.
From a very early age, however, Nietzsche was afflicted with a host of maladies, including blinding headaches that would last for days, problems with his digestion that would leave him vomiting and bedridden, and a progressive blindness that allowed him to read, painfully, for only a couple of hours a day.
Students vote, as the Liberal Democrats are now only painfully aware.
"Many of the records are painfully rare, with only a single digit number of copies known to exist," Lewis said.
Something about the slight smile on his lips caused the muscles in my neck to tighten painfully, and the only relief was to look away from the screen.
Overwhelmingly, the focus on executive diversity so far has been on gender, with companies making only painfully slow progress towards a more equitable representation of women on boards.
James uses the actress's modifiers ("dull," "plain," "slow," "dutiful," "commonplace") but adds alternate interpretations: Catherine may have been quiet rather than dull, ladylike instead of plain, not stolid or irresponsive, only painfully shy.
The ending was not completely satisfactory, but the characters and their relationships were so seamlessly woven – especially his friendship with Sunya, which was not only painfully sweet but also a chance to see Jamie address the ignorance behind his father's words – that it almost did not matter.
Traditionally, Kurdish butter, Tiskaya explains, is made from yoghurt, much like Indian makhan – which, as my 80 minutes whisking yoghurt into froth made painfully clear, is only possible when your yoghurt is made with raw whole milk straight from a cow.
