Proginoskes kythed so strongly that she was pulled back into painful awareness.

For an instant it seemed to him that something had reached deep down inside him, an almost painful awareness and emotion.

There is a nearly painful awareness of each other.

He clutched at a painful gray awareness.

Jolted to painful awareness, Catherine gazed down at the message.

Dark circles ringed eyes which contained a poignant and painful awareness.

Stateside, summertime brings on a painful awareness of our eroded public realm.

As they died, the artist experienced mounting isolation and painful awareness of his own mortality.

Peter moved slowly, as painful awareness of his battle in the alley grew sharper, more persistent with every passing second.

With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women.