Sentence examples for but painfully from inspiring English sources

Not too complicated, perhaps, but painfully familiar right now.

Britons may dislike Conservatives, but painfully few trust Mr Miliband to deliver state-sponsored prosperity.

He found the Khmer population easygoing but painfully shy and ruefully uneducated.

Then, they were tantalizing but painfully distant promises of better living through technology and style.

But painfully slowly and, with no real legal teeth, their effectiveness will always be patchy.

I felt artificially separated from him, that he was close by but painfully distant.

First Michael Kinsley, then Charles Lane, weigh in with defenses of austerity that aren't just wrong, but painfully ill-informed.

Michael moves from Wales to London hoping to begin again, but painfully discovers what it really means to miss somebody.

If Mr. Cho experienced outright psychotic episodes, they might have been mystifying to acquaintances but painfully obvious to his family.

It's sort of clever, even impressive in a way, but painfully unfunny, though that doesn't stop people laughing.

One piece of tinkering Parreira seems to have settled on is to break up the central defensive partnership of Aaron Mokoena and Nasief Morris, pushing the Blackburn man into midfield and replacing him at the back with burly-but-painfully-slow Sundowns blocker Benson Mohlongo.