Meanings of intolerably painful in English

For his head still swam and was intolerably painful.

This idea was intolerably painful to him.

And the present was intolerably painful.

The book is almost intolerably painful.

Any triumph of this sort is cheap, because wrongly based, and to an earnest artist is intolerably painful.

Madeleine said no more, but he thought she looked annoyed, and he felt himself in an intolerably painful situation.

Thus, I might urge that my present abjectness must be intolerably painful to me, and should incline you to forgive.

To have to make this fact plain to her-andto witness her resigned acceptance of it-hadbeen intolerably painful to him.

Eveena's humble, unconscious self-abnegation was rendering the conversation intolerably painful, and even the embarrassing situation now at hand was a welcome interruption.

One intolerably painful thought suddenly struck her like a flash of lightning-Yann'scomrades, the Icelanders, were waiting for him below in the market-place

He himself, like the others, experienced that same feeling of uneasiness which gradually, as the seconds sped past, was becoming almost intolerably painful.

And we may easily suppose a situation like his to have been intolerably painful to a mind haughty, irascible, and conscious of pre-eminent ability.

To detain as a captive and a culprit, thus converting my own house into a prison, my would-be murderess and former plaything, was intolerably painful.