'Yes, I am put under the painful necessity of demanding a divorce,' he said.

We had been under the painful necessity of abstaining from speech for three days and three nights.

She held herself with the stiff awkwardness of someone for whom movement has ceased to be anything other than a painful necessity.

"Then I shall be under the painful necessity of retaining you as my guest."

Auditions are a painful necessity of life and not a fair judgement on your career but you have to go through them.

"In that case, my dear sir, I shall be under the painful necessity of advising your arrest."

This was a new kind of solidarity - not one of painful necessity, but of something far more elusive.

It was a painful necessity, but no one who studies the situation can have any doubt of its wisdom.

You will understand, I hope, the painful necessity for this visit.

It's a story about our overwhelming desire to protect the people we love and the painful necessity to let children go out into the world.