We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.