I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

But as you can also see, it's not a painful exercise at all, because Henri De Courcy -- the `` happy '' bodybuilder -- looks as though he were having the time of his life!!

Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.

The beginnings of Clairvaux Abbey were trying and painful.

Many strikes were painful events for both sides, the unions and the management.

Lovelock refused to use the shaved and anaesthetised rabbits that were used as burn victims, and exposed his own skin to heat radiation instead, an experience he describes as " exquisitely painful ".

The painful retreat caused a tempering quarrel within the group, with the result that Johansen and others were sent to explore King Edward VII Land.

Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful ( hence the term excruciating, literally " out of crucifying "), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal.

Kazan later explained that he took " only the more tolerable of two alternatives that were either way painful and wrong ".

Before the advent of anesthesia, surgery was a traumatically painful procedure and surgeons were encouraged to be as swift as possible to minimize patient suffering.

For most of recorded history, capital punishments were often deliberately painful.

Deliberately painful methods of execution for severe crimes were taken for granted as part of justice until the development of Humanism in 17th century philosophy, and " cruel and unusual punishment " came to be denounced in the English Bill of Rights of 1689.

He was haunted to the end by bitter regrets and by painful memories of the battle at which he lost everything ; Napoleon's last words, addressed to Dr. Henri Conneau standing by his deathbed, reportedly were, " Were you at Sedan?

Hepburn never saw the completed film ; she said the memories of Tracy were too painful.

Similarly Oscar Wilde once criticised him for writing " fiction as if it were a painful duty ".

In the hospital, in the pre-antibiotic era, she had painful minor operations to wash out the affected maxillary sinus, but these procedures were not successful and Earhart subsequently suffered from worsening headache attacks.

They cited the Master System's small games library, coupled with the highly uneven quality of the few games that were released: " Months could go by between major releases and that made a dud on the Master System feel even more painful.

Her embroidered pictures were much admired by friends and relatives, so when arthritis eventually made it painful to wield a needle, her sister suggested that it might be easier to paint — the pivotal suggestion that spurred her painting career in her late 70s.

The Greenbriers are a common vine ( Smilax rotundifolia ) and a humorous myth has it the surveyors were trapped in a thicket of the painful vines when they discovered the Greenbrier River.

Those were painful days, the memory of which has not remained with me.

From the moment when the man tried to escape his tired marriage and odious professional commitments by taking a mistress, took a predictable enough course: the wife soon began to ‘ smell her off him ’; there were painful recriminations when the wife accused the man, hired a private detective, threatened to kill herself, and confronted the mistress in an old rambling house reminiscent of Watt ( and where the servant again is ‘ Erskine ’) … The man renounced the mistress, was forgiven by his wife who ‘ suggested a little jaunt to celebrate, to the Riviera or … Grand Canary ,’ and then, to form, returned to the mistress, this time to elope with her.

Tōgō suffered a strange illness which severely threatened his eyesight: ' the patient asked his medical advisers to " try everything ", and some of their experiments were extremely painful.

' Did you ever stop to wonder how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American flags?

In addition to the well-known greenhouse poems, the Poetry Foundation notes that Roethke also won praise " for his love poems which first appeared in The Waking and earned their own section in the new book ' were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work ,' to the poet Stanley Kunitz.

: But abhorred Eris (' Strife ') bare painful Ponos (' Toil / Labor '), Lethe (' Forgetfulness ') and Limos (' Famine ') and tearful Algos ( Pains / Sorrows ), Hysminai (' Fightings / Combats ') also, Makhai (' Battles '), Phonoi (' Murders / Slaughterings '), Androctasiai (' Manslaughters '), Neikea (' Quarrels '), Pseudologoi (' Lies / Falsehoods '), Amphilogiai (' Disputes '), Dysnomia (' Lawlessness ') and Ate (' Ruin / Folly '), all of one nature, and Horkos (' Oath ') who most troubles men upon earth when anyone wilfully swears a false oath.

It has been called one of the most painful ailments known to mankind.

He called it " a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.

This means that inserting jewelry one size larger the previous jewelry is easier and less painful than in most other piercing locations.

" Giants ' beat writer Bob Stevens was moved to proclaim: " The catch had to rank with the greatest of all time, as well as one of the most frightening to watch and painful to make.

The most common symptom is painful or difficult urination.

Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet.

C. A. Lejeune, wrote Callow, was " shocked " by the poor quality of Laughton's recent work: " One of the most painful screen phenomena of latter years ", she wrote in The Observer, " has been the decline and fall of Charles Laughton.

A peptic ulcer, also known as PUD or peptic ulcer disease, is the most common ulcer of an area of the gastrointestinal tract that is usually acidic and thus extremely painful.

To the extent that the ocean ’ s actions can be understood, the ocean then seems to test the minds of the scientists by confronting them with their most painful and repressed thoughts and memories.

The cutting of the abdomen released the samurai ’ s spirit in the most dramatic fashion, but it was an extremely painful and unpleasant way to die, and sometimes the samurai who was performing the act asked a loyal comrade to cut off his head at the moment of agony.

Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as poison ivy ( older synonyms are Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus radicans ), is a poisonous North American plant that is well known for its production of urushiol, a clear liquid compound found within the sap of the plant that causes an itching, irritation and sometimes painful rash in most people who touch it.

Irreducible abdominal hernias or incarcerated hernias may be painful, but their most relevant symptom is that they cannot return to the abdominal cavity when pushed in.

A new mode of analgesia is sterile water injection placed just underneath the skin in the most painful spots during labor.

The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under the most harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty.

But what is most painful to see is the human cost – the wasted potential, the anti-social behaviour, and the low self-esteem.

Before his death, Jin supposedly joked, " Being beheaded is the most painful thing, but for some reason it's going to happen to me.

It was due to his and others ' suffering in these camps that he validated his hallmark conclusion that even in the most absurd, painful and dehumanized situation, life has potential meaning and that therefore even suffering is meaningful.

On the 17th Vergniaud presided at the Convention, and it fell to him, labouring under the most painful excitement, to announce the fatal result of the voting.

Difficult and often painful to learn, both men and women may benefit from studying pointe technique, however, most performance opportunities are for women only.

On 24 January 1881, he introduced a new Coercion Bill in the House of Commons, to deal with the growth of the Land League, and in the course of his speech declared it to be " the most painful duty " he had ever had to perform.

In most cases it is quite painful, and is the most common cause of a sore throat.