Definition of painfull

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Time_and_again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern_world are only_too painfully obvious .

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Now the_English are painfully silent about my missing hands .

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

John 's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary .