21.   The plans for the Millennium Dome are at least a useful reminder of a painful truth.

22.   The painful truth is that the color line often seems immutable in South Africa, and the nation seems like one in name, not spirit.

23.   The Newman narrative persona may be shifty, but the sentiments behind it tend toward the painful truth.

24.   To tell the painful truth, most French three-stars are remarkably ugly.

25.   When Pvt. Noam Friedman fired his Israeli army assault rifle at Palestinians in a Hebron market, he made clear a painful truth.

26.   Bombs underscore painful truths in Algeria.

27.   Rovers are now discovering the painful Premiership truth that other sides, who are technically superior and tactically more imaginative, can be determined as well.