painfulness

Example Sentences

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“Life on Earth is kind of a playthrough of painfulness, pointlessness, beauty and a deep trove of meanings that we have to find somehow,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

“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.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

If it felt intimate and specific to the point of painfulness, that’s because it was coming from something real; creator Jill Soloway was inspired by her own father’s transition.

From The Verge • Dec. 9, 2015

However, the gracefulness of such acceptance, she added, made her realize that the painfulness of life’s journey is itself often fleeting.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2015

In painfulness it has its degrees—greater or less, according to its kind: for of this dread passion, conceit, or whatever you may call it, there is more than one species.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne