All around were painful sights of the carnage, mainly from the smoking debris of the destroyed great house.

In all my life with dogs, many of them, I'd never seen a more dreadful, painful sight than my neighbor's bloodied chest.

The bay doors close, and Anchet is relieved of the painful sight of his stupid solid face.

Watching television broadcasts of the attacks, he said, he saw the "very, very painful" sight of people trying to escape the towers.

Kirk looked away from the painful sight of an overwrought Spock.

We entered Severinus's laboratory, and here a painful sight greeted our eyes.

"That's a painful sight to see, for them," he said, referring to the Knicks.

But no matter how much she cried or ranted or prayed, she knew the painful truth-her sight was never going to return.

My mother sighed loudly, as at a painful but familiar sight.

Slowly, languidly, Lestat turned to look down again at the painful sight.