How tortuous!

It was excruciating.

It was very painful.

And it's filling up slowly, agonizingly slowly.

It's tedious.

My Internet connection is painfully slow.

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.

But to think of anything extraneous was painful.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

This state of things had now lasted for three days, and not only the husband and wife but the rest of the family and the whole household suffered from it.

Il y va du bonheur et de l'existence d'Anne et de ses enfants! One must act out all these refinements of sentiment.

'It is so painful to think that there is a man who is almost my enemy, whom I dislike to meet,' said Levin. 'I am very, very glad!'

'Travail, that's nothing but pregnancy is torture,' she thought, with her last pregnancy and the death of her infant in mind.

In fact, the French were harbingers of a kind. For something profound is changing in Europe, slowly, painfully, but surely.

They have seen the horrors of cervical cancer, with women in the prime of their lives presenting with late stage disease and suffering slow and painful deaths.

'Yes, a choice between me and Vronsky,' thought Levin, and the dead hope that had begun to revive in his soul died again and only weighed painfully on his heart.

It was painful to her even to think of writing to and coming into contact with her husband she could be calm only when she did not think of him.

Karenin meanwhile talked to the governess with his hand on his son's shoulder, and Serezha felt so extremely uncomfortable that Anna saw he was about to cry.

'Allow me not to believe that,' Oblonsky rejoined gently. 'Her situation is tormenting to her and does not benefit anyone.

And then she thought how happy life might still be, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him and how dreadfully her heart was beating.

There alone, inside that coach on the other side of the road, so rapidly receding from him, was the one possible solution of that riddle which had been weighing on him so painfully of late.

Levin tried to find out through her the answer to the riddle, so important to him, presented by her husband but he had not full freedom of thought because he felt painfully uncomfortable.

It s unclear whether or not they have been forcibly removed by the Thai junta or are voluntarily leaving out of fear there are rumors circulating within the Cambodian community that those who do not leave voluntarily will be shot but seeing the road to Aranyaprathet in Thailand full of caged trucks packed with frightened Cambodians was distressing to say the least.

A number of users had been expressing their skepticism about the gigantic international project at a time when China s economy is struggling with overcapacity, soaring home prices, and inflated credit.

The French state spends vast amounts of money to propagate the French language and French culture, yet the French are painfully aware that the global position of their country is not what it once was.

'It would have been so painful for you alone,' she said, and raising her arms high so that they hid her cheeks, now flushed with pleasure, she twisted her braided hair and pinned it up at the back of her head. 'No,' she continued, 'she did not know how to...

And, as in that case, what was now being accomplished came harshly, painfully, incomprehensibly and while watching it, the soul soared, as then, to heights it had never known before, at which reason could not keep up with it.

In recent years, the role of the traditional spouse has been, most visibly, to stand by (or not) while some excruciatingly embarrassing foible or betrayal by one s husband is publicly aired in mortifying detail.