This is an especially painful truth at VH1 these days.

Some said the worries are especially painful because the newspaper had been showing new signs of health.

For them, it meant being spared an especially painful dilemma.

Especially painful, if necessary, will be the slowed growth of the police force.

By all accounts, the pinch would turn especially painful in October.

She never did, though, and Maggie had found her silence especially painful.

The family's time in a homeless center was especially painful.

Corruption by a member of the police was especially painful.

Exile is especially painful for writers, who can no longer hear their native language.

Empathy is the ability to feel another's experience, especially painful ones.