He is an airforce pilot with an equally painful past - his wife died leaving him with a young child to look after.
Equally painful to recall was the fact that Starblade had done the same to him.
As ugly as it sounds, it was equally painful for hopeful Rays to watch.
Her encounters with racism in Hollywood, though subtler, have been equally painful.
But equally painful was that 270,000 former Green voters simply did not vote.
McNeil's next turnover was equally painful for the Jets.
The issue, after all, is about equally painful.
On subsequent nights their fumblings in the darkness were equally painful and messy.
Equally painful will be dealing with Hungary's and Poland's huge debt burdens.
Equally painful has been the loss of identity.