He came to the painful realization that this was the worst season of his life.

When she dies, he is forced to live with the painful realization that his cutting words were the last she heard.

She has come to the painful realisation that Lee Russell never really returned.

"That's got to be an exceedingly painful realization for Powell."

Which was probably no bad thing, but it was still a painful realization.

It was a painful realization, and on the night of the next full moon, I found myself wandering out onto the deserted soccer field.

The third ponders death and the painful realization that life goes so fast "we don't have time to look at one another."

The same opera that... He closed his eyes in painful realization.

One of his most painful realizations is that he doesn't measure up to his own expectations for himself.

For owners of aging pets, this is a painful realization.