Sentence examples for the pained from inspiring English sources

And the pained, impassioned and sometimes impassive faces within stare right back at them.

The coming days are not likely to become any easier for the pained families.

To the pained listeners, it seemed that they were no longer part of this language group.

Rose's central characters share the pained, passive-aggressive voice of the obsessed.

Imagine the dowager duchess-like response; the pained sadness that you could impugn their faultless motives.

Mr. Hannah calls his world "the democracy of the pained, the fearful, the unheard".

But she delivers those words as the pained response of a flustered woman desperately defending long-toppled barricades of propriety.

The pained vocals, the pastoral arrangements: Vernon seemed to have perfected a studied approach to writing and singing sad songs.

His portrayal emphasized Macbeth's bluster and brutishness, but I missed the pained ambiguity of Mr. Lucic's performance.

Uncompromising gay singers such as Michael Cohen, who mined the pained confessional style of James Taylor, sold pitifully few records.

He could imbue a character with the cool reptilian superiority of, say, Kevin Spacey, as well as the pained humanity of, say, William H. Macy.