pained

By Monday, the people who lead this small city 20 miles west of Milwaukee had adopted the pained, stilted language that has become a ritual in too many American places.

The eye is pained to see men lying drunk on every corner … it is fully as bad as the Barbary Coast in San Francisco.

However, I wouldn’t change a thing about lovely Joseph Gordon-Levitt and his pained morally conflicted little face.

She’s both pained and helpless, experiencing feelings that anyone who has spent time around an unpredictable fellow human, particularly an elderly one, can recognize.

We fight against a pre-writing of a painful future and a rewriting of a pained past.

Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.

Cooper spoke of how pained he was that Garner will never get that chance with his own kids.

Or so the chapter titles formally name him, in a nod, perhaps, to his pained formality.

One senses that Vicente del Bosque, the coach, was going through the motions: He looked pained, and distracted.

A pained Gallo makes it clear who he thinks the real victims are when he cries “why they want to see us suffer?”

In the mean time, he was unable to arrive at any decision, and he began to be pained and disturbed in mind.

Miss Carrington looked as she usually did when Mr. Sharp jokedit pained her and set her teeth on edge.

Pained at his manner, yet not fully realizing its significance, I slowly fall back.

Angelo, dear, she said in repentant  tone; I am sorry I pained you this afternoon; but I am jealous, so jealous of you.

I am a parent, so I instructed my wife to write a letter saying how much I was pained by William's frivolity.