Word: painful
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...incomplete sweater never caused me any psychic pain, but I had always wondered what it would be like to wear something built with my body in mind. Custom-made shoes can cost $3,000, and a custom-made suit twice that, but a number of High Street men's clothiers?including Brooks Brothers, Joseph A. Bank and Thomas Pink?have started to turn out dress shirts made to measure for about $200 a pop?more than the ones already pinned to cardboard and wrapped in plastic but not that much more...
...rhetorical trenches of the culture wars, sometimes the best way to ambush your enemies is to echo them. Read some of the arguments in support of the Federal Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, which the lame duck Congress debated on Wednesday, and you?ll be forgiven if you think they were drafted by a liberal crusader for women's rights. The law is presented as protecting a woman's right to know, and to make an informed consent. "Women should not be kept in the dark," argues Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a sponsor of the bill whose stated purpose...
...comes together: Brownback and Congressman Chris Smith argue for a woman's right to understand the experience of the fetus. Their bill would require abortion providers to tell patients that by 20 weeks after fertilization a fetus can feel pain, and to ask if she would like anesthesia for the baby. If she refuses, she would have to sign a waiver. Doctors who fail to follow the rules could face fines up to $250,000. "There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult...
...hand, you want vengeance—you don’t want to see those who inflicted so much anguish on you to experience nothing but glory. You want them to feel your pain...
...suspect Johnny loved the movie so much because it celebrated the things he did - asking questions, taking notes, asking more questions, flipping through his notebook, writing, making his typewriter crackle like marbles bouncing across a cement floor, polishing what he wrote, arguing with editors, being a general pain in the ass. The things he did, the things we do - not as brilliantly as the early Woodward and Bernstein, not as well as Johnny in full flight, but just as hungrily, just as passionately. Johnny was a lucky man; his memorial service today served to remind those...