How tortuous!

That's a delicate point.

What a subtle hint!

It was excruciating.

The dog has a keen scent.

This laptop computer is very thin.

It was very painful.

And it's filling up slowly, agonizingly slowly.

It's tedious.

My Internet connection is painfully slow.

Low level radiation is a really subtle issue.

Her exotic perfume has a subtle scent.

There are some dilemmas you see.

'And I feel insulted and tortured!

We agonized over the decision for two months.

Listening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.

The ice is too thin to bear your weight.

The ice is too thin to skate on.

The ice is so thin that it won't bear your weight.

This bamboo is too thin to bear much weight.

But to think of anything extraneous was painful.

Hundreds of thousands of people were exterminated, slowly and painfully.

This is why Tudor desperately needs a patina of democratic respectability.

You were saying that our position was full of torment and should be put an end to.

But facts and time have shown that her situation is tormenting and impossible.'

The thin textile lasts for two seasons and is then disposed of as bulk waste.

The thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held in place by gravity.

So harpooned whales typically die slowly and painfully.

Public institutions were rapidly modernized, political democracy adopted, and a standard market economy created. But ordinary people were put under tremendous pressure to adjust quickly, and sometimes painfully.

It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.

But ordinary people were put under tremendous pressure to adjust quickly, and sometimes painfully.

To be in the sick room was torture to Levin, but to be absent from it was still worse.

Watching him lie helpless and speechless, afflicted by so many ailments, not to speak of bedsores, was a heart wrenching experience.

In fact, China s leaders have agonized over North Korea s recent provocations.

Seeing a new born common dolphin, umbilicus still attached was wrenching.

At the mention of letters the lawyer pressed his lips together and gave vent to a high pitched sound of pity and contempt.

So despite the enormous amount of excellent data that was collected, the solution remained tantalizingly out of reach.

But the stakes are especially high in Nigeria, where Yar Adua embodies the country s delicate political balance.

Glass will adsorb water readily, which is why we see a thin film of water on recently washed drinking glasses.

But the patterns are systematic, with consequences that unfold gradually, and painfully, over time.

To remain under so unjust an accusation was painful, but to justify himself and hurt her would be still worse.

The sight of other persons, their words, his own recollections, gave him nothing but pain.

'I will look,' he replied, and glancing at his desk he took up and handed her the thin square envelope of a telegram.

Much more volatile brown mustard seed, some white wine, a nose hit, much more delicate aromatics. And what do they do?

He who was so wise and astute in official affairs did not realize the insanity of such an attitude toward his wife.