11.   Gregers practices a kind of moral terrorism on Hjalmar, pressing him to face painful truths that, the author argues, would have been better left unexamined.

12.   His bill, one fears, glosses over that painful truth.

13.   In a loving, boisterous but ultimately very private family like ours, painful truths are sometimes understood but unspoken.

14.   In its glass there are painful truths about ourselves, and about our complacent belief that foreign worlds out there have been mastered and simplified.

15.   Only Tristan knows the painful truth behind the inscription.

16.   Take six characters in search of some painful personal truths.

17.   The best way to maintain that honor now is to summon the will to speak the painful truth to friend, foe and the American people.

18.   The democratic cityscape records a more or less discontinuous working of meaning in the light of some painful truths indeed.

19.   The first is the painful truth that U.S. troops are in Japan not just because of deep bilateral trust but also because of profound mistrust.

20.   The monologues have been an effort to redeem the experience with humor, to enable others to confront painful truths that have been repressed through fear and shame.