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painfulness

noun as in awkwardness

noun as in bitterness

noun as in unpleasantness

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First cut in the early ’60s, this bouncy meditation on the painfulness of memory could still pull heartstrings two decades later.

“There’s so much tied into the internment camp experience and the painfulness of some people not having anything to come back to,” Hori said.

“The process and the painfulness of budget reconciliation is still required to go through here.”

As the seasons came and went, anticipatory grief turned into actual grief, which then turned into confusion and other emotions both new and familiar in their painfulness.

The only way you can survive in these cells is by adapting to the painfulness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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