Given that the deity is benevolent, small-scale pain must be part of some universal balance, or, as Pope puts it in his "Essay on Man," "All discord harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good".
Ms. Spaisman walked, causing no small pain to her successor.
"People used to assume that itch was just small pain, the little brother of pain," he says.
He felt some small pain — "It was nothing," Rosa said — in that half-marathon, which was viewed as a test for marathon fitness.
Everything had to be meticulously packed, rolled up, jammed in precisely, in order to fit, and unpacking it is no small pain in the ass, especially if it's cold, wet and raining.
The address, however, turned out to be that of a small Pain Quotidien on a side street, with the familiar smell of latte and organic bread; through the window I could see Ignatieff, drinking coffee and reading the Globe & Mail.
So it was with no small pain that she announced last spring that the college, in Pomona near Atlantic City, would raise tuition by 9.8percentt -- about double the national average increase for public colleges and universities.
The fear of hell was instilled by our teaching nun who would periodically light a candle on her desk and invite us to put our forefinger into the flame, the lesson being that this small pain was nothing compared to a sinner's life after death burning in Hell for eternity.
Not knowing how long something will take to cook until after it's prepped and in the June did cause a few small pain points.
