Musical creation for him always proved to be a long, painful struggle.

Each faces a long, painful struggle, and doctors caution that a few may not survive the fight.

Why can't one team reflect life in the city that is a painful struggle we hope somehow works itself out?

Then I didn't give you an impression of painful struggle?

His energetic but painful struggle to make the old system work was itself one of the best arguments for change.

Dissatisfied even after weeks of painful struggle, he returned to Paris in the fall with his unfinished works.

Slowly, every step a painful struggle of resistance, she moved toward the horrific monster.

In 1885, Grant finished his popular military memoirs and died after a painful struggle with throat cancer.

What they never become is separate but equal, with their own painful struggles for dignity.

Almost alone among the members of Congress, he saw no quick victory, but a long, painful struggle.