Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "pain barrier".
The cultural native, in fact, has a great deal of resistance to the deeper truth (because of the pain barrier), and much of the everyday interpretations and practices were in fact generated precisely to hide this deep and often painful truth.
Well do I understand now why the Skillmasters of old might put a pain barrier between the Skill and a willful student.
Bill's feet found the pedals again and he began to pump, wanting to go even faster, wanting to reach some hypothetical speed - not of sound but of memory - and crash through the pain barrier.
But it doesn't fucking matter, I'm beyond the pain barrier, I just want to die!
Well do I understand now why the Skillmasters of old might put a pain barrier between the Skill and a wilful student.
We have not yet been able to supersede the pain barrier of the necessary translation.
He swerved to the grass verge, delighting in the springy comfort of the grass underfoot, through the pain barrier, ex.
Unconsciousness had lasted for perhaps ten seconds, no longer, because as he fought the pain barrier and gasped for breath through lungs that felt as though they had been scalded, he saw Benjie advancing on the crabs.
It was amazing how the most hardened enemy agent, who could resist physical torture that tested his pain barrier to the limit, would submit to this form of more subtle torture.
There was nothing else to help him through the pain barrier before the blessing of death.
This time it was followed by a deafening crash of thunder that rolled on and on, the volume reaching close to the pain barrier.