The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and
painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.
But even the novelty and
painfulness of his going to a Papistical land could no displace for long Mr and Mrs Clare's natural interest in their son's marriage.
Another circumstance which decided him to postpone pursuit of the Arabs was the
painfulness of his wound.
'Placed in a mental position of peculiar
painfulness, beyond the assuaging reach even of Mrs.
As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab, filled me with a certain wild vagueness of
painfulness concerning him.
I went from cell to cell that day; and every face I saw, or word I heard, or incident I noted, is present to my mind in all its
painfulness. But let me pass them by, for one, more pleasant, glance of a prison on the same plan which I afterwards saw at Pittsburg.
Painfulness and pathological resistance were classified as absent or present.
This distance can never be overcome by man himself; the awareness of this immutable fact is the impulse to acquire a new, a completely new science based on advanced methods and objectives, "whose beginning is the fear of God, giving rise to an incessant tender prayer to God and the observance of evangelical commandments, followed by the reconciliation with God, when fear is transformed into love, and the
painfulness of the prayer, turning into sweetness, cultivates the flower of enlightenment, from which, like a fragrance spreading to the one who carries this flower, the cognition of God's mysteries descends.
Painfulness of Conversion in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead
In this '
painfulness' a certain 'truthfulness' comes to be as one's own truth emerges.
Yes, in the sense of making the language of poetry an urgent topic, blowing up its
painfulness. He addressed in particular four problems.