painful

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• While I didn’t project my own father onto the character of Jacob, what was really scary and painful but also so beautiful was in some ways realizing that I am my father, and I am an extension of him and his will and his desires.

• Despite the painful loss, Conque said, Hill’s first words in that call were, “I had fun tonight.”

• “I realized what made that moment so painful was the absence of presence,” Crivello said.

• For parents, the notion that the impact of painful events can transcend children’s memories is unsettling.

• You are the adult who can manage the awkward conversations about your son or frustrating forms of communication or even a painful broken attachment if “the mother takes her away.”

• To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

• But while his departure was “inexpressibly painful,” he never succumbed to bitterness.

• What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.

• I turned left, and began the long, painful walk to the emergency room at the University of Virginia medical center.

• The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

• The voice of duty called her to the kitchen, where her cook patiently awaited her inevitable, and always , audience.