The bridge rocked again, more roughly this time; the viewer flared with a painful brightness, a half second ahead of the automatic light filters.

The viewscreen flared to painful brightness before the radiation sensors reacted to the enemy attack and dimmed the screen to half-intensity.

It spilled brightly across the derro ranks, and the mountain dwarves, to a harrn, turned their faces from the painful brightness.

The painful brightness made me wince, but it instantly melted to soothing gray as I vanished.

Chakotay turned away from the light and saw Rollins scrunched up in his chair, trying to shield himself from the painful brightness.

I looked up into Requiem's eyes, clear blue, an almost painful brightness.

He drew his palms a little wider and the light grew into an iridescent sphere, azure threaded through with brightness painful to the eye.

Simultaneous with the explosion of sound, the energy helixes blazed to a super-white brightness too painful for humans to watch.

The sun had reached noon and was shining down with painful brightness.

Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning.