The year has been a series of painful episodes committed forever to memory.

So a curious, painful episode in one's life bid fair to end.

If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear beyond a painful episode which will end soon enough.

She also found herself re-evaluating painful episodes in her own past.

She has never learned to swim, because cold water sets off painful episodes.

You can also prepare for a painful episode in advance by creating a pain management plan with your doctor.

To a patient Hospital was merely a painful, or at least not very pleasant, episode in his life.

The one painful episode came in my first year of teaching at Columbia.

This was a painful episode, so I'm going to cut it short.

The president has acknowledged many times that this was a very painful personal episode in his own life.