This was the separation phase of a slow and painful split from Pauline, which had begun when Hemingway met Martha.

Following her painful split from Sian, Sophie is left feeling bitterly depressed.

The break-up of the alliance with the official PdL in Sicily and all around the South led to a painful split.

But that was language picked up from previous treaties and did not prevent the union's deeply painful split on Iraq, which pitted countries like France and Germany against Spain and Britain.

That past includes a painful split from his first wife, Sharon Mae Lubin, with whom he had two children, and the period of four years when he wouldn't perform.

Jeff Daniels plays the writing-professor father, Laura Linney is the writer-mother, and Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline are sons buffeted by the painful split.

One year, after a particularly painful split with a boyfriend, she developed a bad case of insomnia and stayed up at night drawing comic strips.

With the end of the long, painful split in sight, furthermore, the nationalist candidate cannot afford to seem to sanction the indefinite presence of foreign troops in Germany.

At a postmodern moment when the need for interpretative license and the need to respect the particular life of the object has created a split as painful as any in postwar art, these three shows have something to say.

There is a painful split, or contradiction, "between what they believe and what they are practicing.