Sentence examples for Painfully true from inspiring English sources
Too often the Lego Grad Student comic rings painfully true.
That was particularly and painfully true for Mr. Johnson's relatives in the area.
But the second movie in particular felt almost painfully true to me.
It is a painfully true recognition of corruption, decay and dying.
As a description of Cameron, as seen from north of The Wash, such a catalogue rings painfully true.
Rating, out of ten: 7. The novel ultimately builds to a painfully true-to-life, deeply unsettling conclusion, but the dry, aimless first half is a bit of a slog.
Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully-true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together?
Every word and nuance of Jenny Lumet's dialogue for Kym rings painfully, uncomfortably true.
Except that, the story being told here is not a work of overheated imagination: it is painfully, terrifyingly true.
"There are so few people of whom we can truly say, 'He was one of a kind,' but of John it was painfully, obviously true," said Daniel Gilbert, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
