Word: painful
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...American actor and producer and director called Bob Balaban. He said, You don't know where the arrow of your performance is going to land. You have no idea. And I had found that out to be true. You know when you intensely, intensely try and emotionally express the pain of loss [or] whatever you're trying to do, and what's on the screen is something completely different. Not what you intended at all. It may be interesting, often, but something completely different. Where that comes from-'I didn't do that, I was doing that and that came...
...nasal vault. Through such operations, specialists say, patients typically go on to lead relatively normal lives. Yet after the disease was diagnosed as the cause of her repeated nose bleeds in 2002, Sébire rejected proposals of surgical intervention - and subsequently turned down the palliative services and pain-masking medication doctors offered. It was only after her tumors had grown too large and present on her brain that Sébire's determination to beat the disease on her own morphed into her final campaign to obtain legally permitted euthanasia from the same doctors whose treatment she'd originally...
...moment she refused surgical treatment, growth of the tumors to their ultimate terminal phase was a given," says Jean-Louis Béal, head of the palliative service at the University Hospital Center in Dijon, who repeatedly advised Sébire undergo treatment for the disease and the pain it brought on. Béal says specialists in at least three French hospitals offered Sébire an operation with a relatively good chance of success - upwards of 70% full success in most cases - though they couldn't promise no potential risk of death or incapacity, which Sébire...
...years she refused the medical community's help to master her disease, and later to limit its evolution and pain," Béal notes. "Then, towards the end, she demanded the medical community help her die using the same sort of medicine she'd rejected as treatment...
...likely occurrence, that in the last years, he could relax only in a room with no windows because he was tortured with worry about who might pull the trigger. His eyes fell on strangers, wondering if they were the messenger of death. King was increasingly marginalized in his own pain; a close aide says there were very few people to whom he could confide the depths of his obsession, and he suffered huge grief of soul and heart, largely alone...