Adjective : painless dentistry; a painless cure. From Dictionary.com.
For painlessness, which is positive, is always to be preferred to pleasure, which is negative. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
Psychologically, it brings you to a state of euphoria, you know, painlessness, and you get used to that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2003] Reference
I would have thought that the appeal of painlessness was universal-but not to people who had never experienced it. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
In less than an hour the delirium ceased; then there was an interval of somnolent painlessness and soft breathing, at the end of which. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Its precision has won fans among dentists, and its painlessness is making it popular among patients, says Los Angeles 'Dr. Brett Delawter. From Wordnik.com. [Blow Your Cavities Away] Reference
Do you not know that there was actual pleasure in the keen pain far beyond the most rapturous thrill of nerve which could be gained from pleasure in the midst of painlessness?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
One can reach that calmness with fearlessness and painlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Hurriyet Dailynews] Reference
When asked what Aponia meant, Dağlı said it means painlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Hurriyet Dailynews] Reference
Only in my club did I know the luxury, or rather the painlessness, of entertaining by check. From Wordnik.com. ["Hosts and Guests"] Reference
'The vivisectionists,' said Fielding, 'may cite you as proof of the painlessness of their work.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Philanderers] Reference
And this statement may mean nothing whatever, so far as concerns the painlessness of these vivisections. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
An experimenter, for example, makes an assertion regarding the absolute painlessness of his vivisections. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
I also wonder why we are concerned with painlessness and humanity when administering death as a punishment. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Incidentally he had much to say as to his skill in filling and bridge work and the marvellous painlessness thereof. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
Individuals have been known to attain a situation of painlessness after undergoing a well executed massage therapy. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
You both deserve to accompany me to the spot where childhood is dreaming and peace of mind and painlessness have their abode. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
This is probably true; although the excuse of painlessness cannot be fairly put forward regarding the tuberculin experiments upon the eye. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
Dr. Dumontpallier had less success with a first cbild-birth, but secured complete painlessness for his patient in the earlier stages of labour. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
It is very still and warm, as the struggle goes on, and dwindles, a little more, and a little moreand then welcome oblivion, painlessness, death. From Wordnik.com. [Last of the War Cases. November Boughs] Reference
If we assume that painlessness and lavishness are the birthright of our children, we lie to ourselves and to them about the world they will inherit. From Wordnik.com. [Articles] Reference
It is very still and warm, as the struggle goes on, and dwindles, a little more, and a little more -- and then welcome oblivion, painlessness, death. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Entertainment of these lusts in the heart soon renders it callous -- "past feeling" as Paul expresses it -- and thus secures Nisroch's wished-for painlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Angels] Reference
So feigning serious but inconspicuous injury and getting a sled ride to painlessness from one of the mountain's tasty First Responder boys was my next thought. From Wordnik.com. [bite my cookie] Reference
In less than an hour the delirium ceased; then there was an interval of somnolent painlessness and soft breathing, at the end of which Winterborne passed quietly away. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
This was, in fact, the case, but it will not continue to be so when man, by his return to the innocence of nature, has won back his right to the painlessness of death. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
It was the SOUND that he seemed to be fighting; in the buffeting of his body against the rocks there was the painlessness of a knife-thrust delivered amid the roar of battle. From Wordnik.com. [Flower of the North] Reference
Again, some of the later Cyrenaics reduced pleasure to a mere negative state, painlessness; and others, later still, substituted for pleasure "cheerfulness and indifference". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
If the present methods of demonstration or teaching of physiology are such as would meet general approval so far as their painlessness is concerned, why fear to make them known?. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
"We feel pain, but not painlessness; we feel care, but not exemption from it; fear, but not safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
A normal and natural maternity; that we should study to attain something of the naturalness and the painlessness of the labors of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
I knew what that pallor, that painlessness meant. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
"That feeling of continuity," returned George, "is a proof of the painlessness of departure. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference
We chose painlessness because the name for it sounded better but if you ask us we think we are also fearless, "Dağlı said smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Hurriyet Dailynews] Reference
Pain that is painlessness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
We have had assurances of their painlessness. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
106 With finest silk in painlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Four Plays of Gil Vicente] Reference
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