Sentence examples for shocks of pain from inspiring English sources

Buckhurst treats the show as a storybook tale, a kind of "Struwwelpeter," full of sudden shocks of pain, visual surprise, and devilish laughter: a child's vision of right and wrong, but with adult consequences.

A wave of nausea, accompanied by electric shocks of pain that were synchronized with my pulse, monopolized my consciousness.

From my two hours on the operating table I remember nothing, punctuated by a shock of pain so wrenching and intense that it fails comparison with anything else I have ever experienced, then nothing, then another shock comparable only to the first, then nothing.

I was about to head for the fence a shock of pain coursed through my back.

To think of what she experienced, heading home after a night with friends at a local hangout: the sudden approach of a car, the shock of pain and fear.

As I sat with her in the dim light of her bedroom, her head in my lap, stroking her hair, I wondered what must it be like to feel the sudden shock of pain caused by something you cannot see or stop.

Clutching an ice cube in your hand or holding to a part of your body to provide an alternative shock of pain to distract from the real pain.

Some sounds - the silence of shock, the pain of the wounded and the cries of bereaved relatives - unite all wars.

But even in the relative ordinariness of a suburban divorce, Dr. Kernberg said she has been shocked by the level of pain that children experience.

There was little difference between the two experiences in terms of the immediate sense of shock, grief, pain and sense of loss.

The plot twist, though, was just the latest in a long tradition of television character assassinations, many of which have elicited reactions of shock, pain, sorrow, fury and sometimes laughter from devoted watchers.