Lucy forced herself to voice the painful fact of her son's callous, irresponsible act.

This is a fact, but it is one of those painful facts that it seems better to ignore.

But dollar signs don't win games; the Yankees have learned that painful fact of baseball life the past four years.

And the painful facts of a faulty, crucial resource are hard to refute when seen up close.

At the heart of the film is a painful fact: the attempt to be kind, by preserving lives, can turn into unwitting cruelty.

(That is perhaps a painful fact, but then, you know, we cannot reform our forefathers.)

Now why don't you just learn to accept that painful fact?

The peace could not be avoided, however painful the fact.

It is a painful fact that the 20 years that have elapsed since the fall of communism were not enough to create a new constitution.

The painful fact was that she simply did not know for certain-about Barbara or any of them.