| Though private radio has sustained painful financial losses so far, their executives are still walking about whistling a cheery tune. |
| The reappearance of road gangs in Alabama revived painful images of the state and the South as a backward and racist region. |
| If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. |
| With these aristocratic reactionaries, Tocqueville shared a painful sense of dislocation and loss. |
| Deep, painful decisions for President Wilson in World War I to send Americans back from whence they had the chaos, from whence they had escaped. |
| The wounds were still too raw and painful for the fragile bandages to be removed. |
