This is painful.

Is it painful?

It's too painful.

This is very painful.

Tom is painfully shy.

He was painfully thin.

He was painfully thin.

She was painfully thin.

She was painfully thin.

It was very painful.

That was extremely painful.

Divorce is always painful.

Don't be so sensitive to criticism.

That would be less painful.

I knew it would be painful.

Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.

She said, Of course, you know, it was very painful for you.

This situation is painful, I live in Tixtla, where the Ayotzinapa University is.

Certainly there are morbidly obese people, whose weight puts their lives at risk.

The chancellor herself, according to some reports, took the news of her wiretaps rather painfully.

Everywhere, economic activity is painfully stabilizing at 5 to 10 below 2007 levels.

This is not new, but it has only recently started to sink in, and it hurts.

All this was troubling enough to Indian policymakers, who were being painfully reminded of the country s vulnerability to a determined neighbor.

He himself felt painfully what all those around him felt too, that it is not good for a man of his age to be alone.

The man raised his straw hat above his thin curly hair, uncovering a tall forehead with an unhealthy redness where the hat had pressed it.

jo ebisujima also visited the center and learned that putting chairs on the back of an elephant is painful for the animal One of the important things that were learnt was that the chairs that are used for carry people and luggage on an elephants back (hawdah) really isn't good for them. This is due to the shape of the bones...It is more comfortable for the elephant to be ridden without any kind of saddle and sat on their neck.

But, at the end of the day, such a transfer is the most direct approach to faster recovery. Eventually, it will take place one way or another, anyway, as Europe is painfully learning.

The dangers of failing at this task have been made painfully clear in the sub prime mortgage debacle.

Others have, more predictably, decried the film s searingly authentic depiction of India s poverty and slum life.

Eventually, it will take place one way or another, anyway, as Europe is painfully learning.

The story of Western failure in Afghanistan is now all too familiar, painfully illustrated, almost weekly, by the repatriation of fallen NATO soldiers.

As the sex texting former United States Congressman Anthony Weiner is painfully learning, there is such a thing as too much information.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.

So it is all the more striking and painful that for so long this specific war crime has received little attention.

And it very slowly, over a few minutes, sort of painfully goes up, and then it gains momentum and it looks like it's almost about to fall.

Despite whatever pain we incur, we must maintain and, if necessary, deepen sanctions against Russia and reinforce NATO s front line.

As the current crisis makes painfully clear, in this era of global trade and investment, our economies and our prosperity are inextricably linked.

Nobody will deny that, for any state, being separated from part of its territory is a painful matter even if a different ethnic group largely populates that territory.

Back then, Muslim thinkers contrasted the decline of their own societies with Europe's dynamism, a particularly painful distinction in light of European successes in colonizing large parts of the Muslim world.

This, of course, will be painful for banks, but their pain will be nothing in comparison to the suffering they have inflicted on people throughout the rest of the global economy.

Such loans would have been unacceptable in a floating rate regime, because they threatened to move the exchange rate too far for the health of the economies.

Even those countries that were better prepared were made painfully aware of the after effects of crisis export markets collapsed, commodity prices fell, and credit markets seized up.

The Chinese remember all too painfully the unequal treaties imposed by the Western powers on China and Japan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

China s exchange rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.

But mixed with America s moral and economic concerns were large measures of condescension and arrogance, which arose from seeing China as a poor, benighted land in need of rescue. For a proud and once powerful land such as China, such noblesse oblige was painful to accept and created lasting reservoirs of resentment.