Question

some music artists can compose painfully beautiful ballads about lost love. those artists can express moments of love and heartache so well that listeners can feel the artists pain. based on the context of the sentence, the oxymoron \painfully beautiful\ means that a. some things can be exceedingly difficult to accomplish. b. something is so exquisite that it may hurt someone to experience it. c. emotional situations can be the most destructive. d. public appeal can be attained by experiencing extreme discomfort.

Explanation:

An oxymoron combines contradictory terms. "Painfully beautiful" combines the negative - connotation "painfully" with the positive - connotation "beautiful". It implies that the beauty is so intense it can cause an almost painful emotional reaction.

Answer:

A. some things can be exceedingly difficult to accomplish.