painful

However painful, it’s important that you have witnessed your friend’s husband’s abusive actions, and that you are still in your friend’s life.

The red numbers carry on a painful trend.

During the biopsy, which found a polyp on her cervix which was then removed without warning, Mrs Lord repeatedly said it was "really painful" but was not offered pain relief, she said.

The defeat by the All Blacks one week prior was painful.

In the film, the moment lands with a warmth that’s almost painful: kindness given freely, even blindly, becomes the thing that finally draws The Creature out of hiding.