He needed some painful mental work before he finally nodded.

And nearly two months after the torrential rains ravaged the country, the painful work of rebuilding is only just beginning.

It helped in the slow, painful work of the paper's reconstruction.

For those who do relate to it, "Eating" is a funny and painful work that offers no happy ending.

Bruce described the album as the darkest, most painful work he had ever done.

Nor was there any need for hard and painful work.

What was the good of damping the energy they displayed in the painful work of escape?

It is painful work: on Sunday, the temperature was 42 degrees below zero.

Hard, painful, and morally repugnant work shouldn't look too attractive for you to afford to buy the job.

It can be hard and painful work, a source of the rise in wrist-crippling repetitive stress injuries.