I wish Max a swift and painless ride into obscurity.
Detroit's fall from grace has been neither swift nor painless.
But my anonymity was acceptable to me in the face of such a swift and painless outcome.
Or, "Your death can be swift and painless, a bullet in the back of the head, or it can take time".
The procedure was as swift and painless as before, but Ms. Specht said she was becoming more frustrated by scheduling problems.
Pollan contends that "people who care about animals should be working to ensure that the ones they eat don't suffer, and that their deaths are swift and painless".
What this suggests to me is that people who care should be working not for animal rights but animal welfare -- to ensure that farm animals don't suffer and that their deaths are swift and painless.
He made a swift and painless exit August 28, less than two weeks into his last act -- a cross-country move with Yvette to La Jolla, CA, to be with their children.
The tilt of Sinatra's hat, on the cover of the LP, and the position of his hands (one lightly holding a woman's, the other motioning with jerked thumb, as if a trip to Capri were as swift and painless as hitching a ride) inform us that, thanks to airplanes, the world is now his, and ours, for the asking.
For a society so preoccupied with quality-of-life issues, isn't it ironic and an indictment that the only people guaranteed a swift and painless death are those who have committed a crime so grievous that their punishment is to die ("McVeigh Dies for Oklahoma City Blast," front page, June 12)?
