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

Or, in other words, that we do not ordinarily act with so much energy in order to gratify a slight feeling or emotion, as we do to gratify one of greater intensity and painfulness.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor