Sentences with phrase «pretty painful year»

Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.

Not exact matches

Clearly, John knows better than to drift into this darkly violent world, and it's pretty painful to watch him bounce back and forth over the next year, giving in to his inner rage and beginning to lose sight of both the promise of his intellect and his goal to break out of his working class roots and attend university.

If your friend has been doing this for several years, the penalty will be pretty painful.

This year has been especially painful for equity investors as global equities have pretty much been in a lockstep, free fall all month long.