Sentences with phrase «is a painful way»

It's a painful way to learn it, but I am glad it finally sunk in

I tried pumping, which is a painful way to start.

Bouncing back and forth this way was a painful way to live.

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While it's never a very pleasant experience to quit your job, there are ways to make it less painful than a traumatic high school breakup.

For Kelly, meanwhile, Trump's relentless attacks — as painful as they may have been personally — have served to put her in the spotlight in a way she might never have been otherwise, and that has undoubtedly helped her career, both within Fox and potentially outside of it.

But that clearly shows no outcome is certain, so if you are thinking you don't have to show up to vote on Tuesday because there is no way the impossible could happen, take it from somebody who has learned from painful experience: You are wrong about that.»

For those not bold (or crazy) enough to ink the image of Jobs on their skin, Legend Toy's 12 - inch plastic action figure made in his likeness was, for a time, a less painful and non-permanent way to keep his memory alive.

Recessions can often be like the economy's answer to a ravaging forest fire — a painful but necessary way to clean the slate and create lasting change.

That 50 - 50 split is a way to avoid a really painful and difficult discussion, but [later] you get that «Oh no, mom and dad are fighting» culture, and the team is going «What are we here for?»

«The only way to have this type of flexibility is to build a culture that makes change totally expected and acceptable — that's what will make these instances less painful,» says Simo.

At the end of one particularly pressing day, Line realized that 12 hours of piano playing was way too much — she'd developed a painful bruise on her posterior.

Snyder called it a «difficult and painful step,» but he did not see any other way to get the city out from under the $ 18 billion in debt it's facing.

Because the only way to guarantee they will never fail is to never let them try (or make it very painful for them to fail).

We argued then that the most likely and least painful way out of the eurozone crisis was for...

The painful process can be (and was) helped in several ways.

And you'll be better able to let go of the painful past, and step forward into the future in a more loving and compassionate way.

Not only is it one of the best ways to save for retirement, but automating savings is a less painful way to save — and you'll hardly notice the money is missing.

The goal of policymakers must be to work out what rebalancing requires and then to design and implement the least painful way of getting there.

We used to make money betting on reinventing lousy businesses and kind of wringing money out of them, but that is a really painful, difficult way to make money, especially if you're already rich.

Put another way, $ 1,000 invested at the peak of the market last year fell in value to just $ 493 in March, but by this week had rebounded to $ 740 — still a painful loss, but not nearly as bad as it might have been if you'd panicked.

While such a perception may not be entirely erroneous, and while such a process may be frustrating to those inside as to those outside the Orthodox Church, it is in some ways a profoundly — even if often painful — democratic method than frequently perceived.

Religious teachings often DEFY logic and reason (e.g., God is all knowing, all seeing and all powerful and yet He allows someone's husband or wife to die a painful and horrific death from colon cancer)-- that's why the religious sometimes must turn to faith (e.g., God works in mysterious ways).

Everything man is involved in can and does get tainted with man made ways... yes, there is a painful past and present... but, that isn't all there is...

She's fine with the way she looks, so why should she undergo a lengthly, expensive, and painful process just to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?

faith and freedom in the body of Christ is painful and scarry, full of dangers and pitfalls... a good way to avoid this is doctrinal statement,..

After hearing countless stories of how pornography has affected the lives of others, I've come to realize that the consequences of porn use are akin to flying bits of shrapnel: painful, unpredictable, and in some ways, fatal to our lives.

The question is whether it is better to continue to disrupt life in a way that makes people less and less able to deal with their own problems and meet their own needs, or to begin the painful process of reducing dependence on world markets.

The reality is that every one of us has created some negative pattern in our lives, usually at an early age in life, where we discovered that when we experienced painful feelings, usually around violations of love (identity) and trust (safety), we found a way of coping that helped us survive.

In one way or another, each of us is challenged by a personal wilderness: painful loss, physical suffering, financial reverses, betrayal or bereavement.

We knew it would be a more painful way to live because we already knew that some relationships aren't forever.

Within the supportive relationship of AA, these individuals had been able to do in a limited way what one is able to do in a psychotherapeutic relationship — viz., feel secure enough to relax one's usual defenses and take an honest look at painful aspects of the self.

It says, «you say you're a Christian, but you really aren't,» which, if you've ever had that accusation thrown your way, you know is incredibly condescending and painful.

Because that is just it, some people believe that an actual life is ended, and in a cruel and painful way.

«We were reading and discussing certain Hebrew scriptures,» he says, «and one of the Jewish participants in our group suddenly broke down and told us how painful it was to hear the way Christians were interpreting «his» texts.

Eventually, you find yourself somewhere you don't want to be, and there are only painful ways out.

Lewis» concluding chapter on charity in The Four Loves, among the most powerful pieces of his generally powerful prose, is a haunting depiction of the way in which this needed transformation is likely to be painful.

Fires of hell are simply the long and painful process of having to cut off those who stubbornly refuse to admit their destructive ways and turn from it.

The book is about the painful and confused transitions from Communist totalitarianism» pains and confusions that in different ways attend educational reform also in this country.

Not to mention drowning is a horrible and painful way to die.

In my last conversation with Karl Barth, in 1961 — a conversation that was for both of us in some ways painful — I asked him what he expected of his former students, seeing that he was so dissatisfied with what I was then doing (i.e., developing what was to be The Secular Meaning of...

I am learning the painful truth that even when you pray and ask God, even when you quote back to God the applicable Scriptures, even when you walk around the object you are praying for six times and play your trumpet on the seventh, God doesn't always answer the way you want him to.

Shame is a painful feeling that directs your attention onto yourself in ways that make it difficult for you to care about what other people are feeling around you.

That too was present and painful, because she was no longer here in that way and never would be again.

In any case, there is no way of dodging the painful agonies of our time simply because of the tactics a few people use in trying to redress them.

Unfortunately you have chosen to view God from a very painful perspective and I really don't blame you for thinking that way and it is very brave that you express your perspective so openly... But you have chopped pieces of the story and put them together way out of context.

In its narrative shape the sermon would lead the hearers through a Pentecost that would be grounded in radical, often painful upheaval, and would reach its stride in the missional stance when they shared their new life with others in surprising ways.

Talk of the ways of spreading a wholesome Conservatism throughout this country: give painful lectures, distribute weary tracts (and perhaps this is as well — you may be able to give an argumentative answer to a few objections, you may diffuse a distinct notion of the dignified dullness of politics); but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concerned — try a little pleasure.

Most reports emphasized the tragedy of the situation and her bravery in playing dead despite her painful injury so that she could call 911 and warn police that Haskell was on his way to her grandparents» home next.

This death is as painful a way to die as any I have seen.

From a growth perspective, knowledge of the dynamics of the ego's defenses is a valuable resource because it clarifies the ways in which people unconsciously isolate themselves from painful reality and from the growth that is possible only by dealing more openly with this reality.