The play drove home a painful point for the Falcons.

Don't bring things to a painful point - Don't humiliate others.

I was at that painful point of having to discover who I really was.

Midori kissed each painful point carefully, before moving on to the next, descending gradually.

These painful points that refer pain elsewhere are called trigger points, and will be dealt with later.

That list is obviously not exhaustive and I could continue, but unfortunately I must move on to painful points.

His tongue traced circles on her skin, teased her nipples to painful points.

Here is the painful point.

"This place is worth every coin," Crassus murmured, wincing slightly as the slave girl worked a painful point between his shoulder blades.

He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point.

But as he pulled the antler-handled stone blade from the sheath, the sturgeon, in one last mortal struggle, tried to rid itself of the painful point.

As for the painful point made in some polls that few people want to have dinner with him, he noted that no one had ever turned down an invitation.

Ever the literary archeologist, he adroitly plumbs the substrata of history, digging into past lives to locate the exact, often painful points of intersection.

APPELFELD: True, that is the painful point of my latest book.

The painful point can be felt as a nodule or band in the muscle, and a twitch response can be elicited on stimulation of the trigger point.

This report puts its finger on the painful points of the common agricultural policy and its latest reform, and I can only welcome these facts being brought out into the open.

But the wars coincide at one painful point, they said: in the trauma and confusion of soldiers who returned home from a questionable and prolonged war fought in another country, for another people.

In the chronic version, the patient can have painful point tenderness but may or may not have an irregular epididymis upon palpation, though palpation may reveal an unusually firm epididymis.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, has called for a full examination of "painful points" in history and last November announced the setting up of party commissions to study the rehabilitation of Stalin's victims.

It was only when Mr. Bush greeted the crowd that he was cheered on - driving home the painful point that even among staunch Bush supporters, the war is no longer a career-sustaining victory.

When he refused the honor, she made certain that he got her point, her painful point, that she was ruler here, not Cel, and Amatheon would do as he was told or else.

You lie there on the pebbles, rocks seaching out the most painful points in your spine, head rolling back at an unnatural angle, watching out of the corner of your eye for teen-agers on all-terrain vehicles.

Among its many effects on Cypriot life, the United Nations-patrolled buffer zone has succeeded in freezing relations between the two communities at their most painful point, preserving harsh memories that are passed on from one generation to another, undisturbed by the humdrum experience of living together.

In their earliest incarnations, the Cenobites practice, with a religious devotion, a supernatural form of hedonism, manifested through the expansion of sensation to an extremely painful point of sensory overload, and enduring excruciating pain through incessant tortures that transcend traditional laws of physics.