Sentence examples for feel painfully from inspiring English sources

Sometimes I feel, painfully, that his act was not enough.

Many of these old recipes, however, feel painfully dated.

I began to feel painfully out of place wherever I was.

The X Factor has its moments but, when it does, they feel painfully calculated.

The snappy dialogue, the details ("the Ba-Da-Bing Club") all feel painfully and exhilaratingly real.

And even if we embrace Levin's religious conversion, don't his conclusions feel painfully workmanlike?

It feels painfully inadequate, and entirely avoidable.

But his victory feels painfully short-lived.

He often felt painfully out of place.

Thirty-five years later he sometimes felt painfully homseick for Norwood.

The New England winter feels painfully heavy, and overwhelmingly quiet.