I'm nodding my head at many of the comments, but this one hits the truth in the sorest spot.

A law that imposes strict rules on assisted fertility will remain on the books, after the failure on Monday of a hard-fought referendum that rubbed into one of Italy's sorest spots: the relationship between church and state.

In doing so, the councilman, Valery V. Karpov, touched one of the sorest spots of Communism - the inhibitions of communal apartment living - with one of the sharper issues of glasnost: how libertine should the new freedoms and candor be allowed to become.

"She carned you when you were a baby," Ce'Nedra went on, seeming to know exactly where the sorest spot on Garion's wounded conscience lay.

The reservation of priestly ordination to men is perhaps the sorest spot among contemporary critics of the Catholic Church's treatment of women.

They go too directly to opera's sorest spot: its understandability.

Finally hunger could no longer be denied and they sprinted back to the secret clearing, patting each other dry, carefully avoiding the sorest spots.

She knew exactly how to prod the sorest spot.

Thus, making his own actual serpent- if a serpent there actually was in his bosom- the type of each man's fatal error, or hoarded sin, or unquiet conscience, and striking his sting so unremorsefully into the sorest spot, we may well imagine that Roderick became the pest of the city.