"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the team's several escapades, Bane reveals both a deep respect for his onetime adversary and a painful yearning to assume the mantle of Batman, telling a trio of rescued citizens to tell people that it was the Batman who saved them.
- He glanced anxiously over at Lianne, whose eyes were still closed-and he allowed himself to acknowledge the deep and painful yearning for Felouen he intentionally ignored, the one that came roaring back to life every time he saw her.
- The Governor's shock at learning that I was Jamie's wife was now at least partially explained; that one glimpse of unguarded, painful yearning had told me exactly how matters stood on his side.
- Polly's crooked smile masked a stab of painful yearning.
- Attached to the fear and the painful yearning was an overlay of desperation and frustration, numbing and endless, a desperation that had built up through eon after eon until it was at least as intolerable as Kremastor's twenty thousand years of helpless, terror-filled isolation.
- Shortly after this a love-sick detective pulls his car up to the residence, suffering from a painful bullet wound and an equally painful yearning to track down Laura, his long-missing beloved.
- It throbbed strangely with the painful yearning of his heart.
- A powerful, painful yearning brought a rush of tears to Nicole's eyes.
- There is an almost painful yearning in American musical life for a healthy operatic tradition, one that would combine the energy of the Broadway musical with the ambitions of European opera, one that would merge vernacular styles and a cultivated esthetic.
- The painful yearning of an exile for a land no longer hers.
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