But trying to bring together opposing sides can be very difficult, even personally painful.

Of course that's trivial compared to the money we've made for our investors, hundreds of times that, but I found it personally painful to fail.

Mr. Friedman said that the experience had been personally painful and that he hoped to be able to pay his debts "some day."

The attacks were damaging as well as personally painful.

And to avoid any other outcomes that you would find personally painful.

Letting her leave must have been personally painful.

"While a personally painful decision, it's an easy decision because the facts are clear," said one person with knowledge of the governor's thinking on the issue.

Stacey asked, reaching for a less personally painful topic.

For them and their fellow election officials, rejecting a single military vote was personally painful.

"It was a personally painful decision," he said.