Sentence examples for Painfully ordinary from inspiring English sources

Barnes said of his staging, "It takes a painfully ordinary little show and launches it into space".

And jurors have heard that even a state's top political minds can sound crass, unsophisticated and painfully ordinary when they think no one else is listening.

Your Sept. 26 front-page article about Rodney Rocha, the humble, thoughtful and almost painfully ordinary NASA engineer, emphasizes his quiet and dogged heroism.

He is a painfully ordinary man and -- it must be said -- a boring one; yet his blandness is a cover for a terrible neediness and loneliness.

He wrote a painfully ordinary letter, posted it, and had no reply, which was unsurprising, for the address she had given him was Scottish and she was in the Caribbean.

For all Sarah's sins — neglecting her child, wallowing in romantic delusions — there's something almost brave about her refusal to join the supermoms drilling their toddlers with dreams of Harvard, and about her yearning for more than "a painfully ordinary life".

The same man who could boast 200 conquests in a month in Venice during carnival time could also be painfully shy in ordinary social situations.

The none too subtle clue is the poppy, whose glaring redness sets an otherwise ordinary painting painfully alight.

That such a restaurant has thrived under sanctions lends credence to the common Iranian gripe that the sanctions have hit ordinary people painfully, while anyone with connections has been able to make enormous sums operating in a closed, illiberal business environment.

An account of her own performances by a woman whose remarkable physiology (plus plenty of training) allows her to survive (though painfully) in water that would kill an ordinary person in minutes.

It's a tantalising glimpse into the lousy choices available to ordinary people in a wartorn, painfully impoverished land, though the film wafts its attention only fleetingly at the Somalis' background.