"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Michael's writing is characterized by its humor, painful irony, empathy and tolerance.
- There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour.
- The painful ironies of these two objectifications come across very well.
- It was a painful irony: foreign surgeons were always going to be inexperienced, but no one else had so much time on their hands.
- But he will not be in St. Petersburg to witness the event, perhaps the most painful irony of this affair.
- And there is no more painful irony to contemplate in all the events of his life than the way his own "cursed" family evolved.
- That sounds like an excruciatingly painful irony to me.
- He is more comfortable with painful ironies than occasional points of light.
- That to me is the painful irony of what is happening.
- There is painful irony here for Kelly and his wife, Jill.
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