painlessness

And surely the painlessness of the experience must be another indication that nothing serious was going on.

I would have thought that the appeal of painlessness was universal-but not to people who had never experienced it.

Drowning in the sheer pleasure of painlessness, he blacked out.

They started with a grand design that invited elite derision in its popular assurance of painlessness.

A sense of peace, well-being and painlessness.

But popularity does not mean painlessness.

I knew what that pallor, that painlessness meant.

Ah, the painlessness of computer animation.

Perhaps we can do it "surgically" - that bit of jargon that strangely implies relative painlessness, and no postoperative problems.

Vash admired its efficiency... and relative painlessness.

Certainly the first three did not resist, possibly because he had led them to believe that he was still demonstrating the painlessness of the procedure and nothing else.

There would be pain for hour after hour, and then a few minutes of relative painlessness that was only the pain gathering itself for a new assault.

Slow growth, painlessness (as the ulcer is usually not associated with nerve tissue), and absence of lymphatic spread due to local destruction of lymphatic channels.

Chronic pain may be continuous with occasional sharp rises in intensity (flares), or intermittent: periods of painlessness interspersed with periods of pain.

The pain flowed away, like water from a broken vessel, flowed out and down and away, and Killashandra sank into the gorgeous oblivion which swiftly followed painlessness.

Then suddenly, "It is very still, and warm, as the struggle goes on and dwindles - a little more, and a little more - and then cold, welcome oblivion, painlessness, death."

Her short story "Painlessness" won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best horror short story and the 2009 Ditmar Award for best Australian novella or novelette.

In this and other handlings of the same theme, Perrault doesn't agonize about the pain so much as celebrate the possibility of relief, depicting "migraine giving way to the light of painlessness brought on by new medications."

Independent estimates put the number at 10,000, a figure ascribed to a reluctance among some Germans to acknowledge publicly that they are unemployed and the relative painlessness of joblessness: the minimum compensation for Germany's unemployed is more than $600 a month.

Liberals can face that fact honestly, as Walter Mondale did; or with deceptive painlessness, as Jesse Jackson does with his soak-the-rich tax schemes; or grudgingly, as Mr. Dukakis does with his "last resort" protestations.

Reluctantly it allows the creation of a Death Contract, an understanding between a person and Prime Intellect that the person is not to be removed from danger until the instant of death, at which point the person is reverted to life and painlessness.

Half the songs advocate the painlessness of casual romance: in "It Don't Get Better Than This," the singer meets "a beautiful temptress," shacks up with her and boasts that "I got all I'll ever need," even as he admits the situation is "crazy indeed."

"It is precisely because it falsely appeals to the sense of medical technology and efficiency and humaneness and painlessness that it is intended to make the process of sentencing people to death and executing them easier on everybody," he contended, adding, "That is the true horror of it."