"Some people always need to learn lessons the painful way," was all he said.

It looked like a painful way to start a Saturday.

But they took themselves out in bloody and painful ways.

It seemed that I'd come a long, painful way for a negative answer.

Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone.

And it would certainly be a painful way to go.

"This is a painful but very effective way to learn a lesson."

But that's a painful way to build an opposition party.

She was making her painful way toward a door on their left.

It is a very slow and painful way to die.