But if your 1996 investment thesis had been that ordinary people would adopt Linux en masse over the next decade — which would not have seemed at all crazy — then you would have been in for a giant world of hurt. (techcrunch.com)
There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail. (annvoskamp.com)
Chekhov's contained worlds of hurt, romantic folly and copious, misdirected passion dare the actor to say: I must risk being foolish or uninteresting, and not knowing whether a given moment is supposed to be funny or tragic... (southflorida.com)