It acts quickly, but has the unfortunate quality of being exquisitely painful at its task.

It may be true, that, to a sensitive observer, there was something exquisitely painful in it.

If the condemned is at all conscious, such contractions are exquisitely painful.

That Michael did not understand her point of view was exquisitely painful to her.

And once again Julie was alone with this exquisitely painful moment.

If I sleep, that is to say die, all my exquisitely painful sensitivity will end.

Only childbirth, which she had witnessed, was less dignified, and, of course, exquisitely painful.

The broken ribs would make simply breathing exquisitely painful.

The moment of exposure had been exquisitely painful - the light shed startlingly vivid.

The services for the burial of a child are exquisitely painful.