Sentence examples for somehow painful from inspiring English sources

What I was coming to understand, though, was that my mother did not come into the world fully formed in 1981, when I was born, that there was a complicated and somehow painful life that predated me.

Code made conversation somehow less painful.

She thought that failure could be softened, sweetened, made somehow less painful.

You claim that this is somehow more painful than some other method.

With sobriety and a salary, I couldn't stop thinking about the baby that wasn't, a loss somehow made more painful by his baby that was.

The text is softened by the dainty embroidery, as if the words somehow seem less painful set against pretty garments.

It might not make reality any less ugly, but it might open some new questions about the situation: Is life evolving, somehow, through this painful struggle?

"The burning spread over my tongue and around my mouth and became overwhelming," McQuaid writes of the painful, yet somehow pleasant, experience he shared with his son.

For it also gives shape to the painful yet somehow hilarious disjunction that is the residue of a shattered love affair.

While at first many of us, like me, may fear confronting the painful reality, somehow we must find the courage and, like Meg Ryan showed us in that diner, if we can fake it, together we can make it.

The image is a classic specimen of both artists' ambiguous national vision: black and white; advancing and retreating; the sky's open possibility made painful, and somehow more real, by whatever lies beneath.