My choice of words, he said, with a pained expression, would be deeply hurtful to the Government in Taipei.

But he found the whole episode deeply hurtful.

Spencer-Thomas, whose elder son has severe autism, condemned Coleman's remarks as "irresponsible, medically unsound and deeply hurtful" to families that had a child with autism.

I know that they must be deeply hurtful to conservative evangelical Christian women I have loved as best friends, mentors and relatives.

Any suggestion to the contrary is deeply hurtful.

These accusations were also widely made and deeply hurtful.

I was hoping that there would be an acknowledgment that these comments were deeply hurtful and inappropriate for the party.

But not every author writes a book that Buckingham Palace calls "deeply hurtful" and "complete fantasy."

I should note here that Ayers's "comments" were not among the things that New Yorkers-this New Yorker, anyway-found "deeply hurtful" that day.

Ms. Cole said it was deeply hurtful.