Sentence examples for if painfully from inspiring English sources

That's certainly true, if painfully obvious.

His penchant for finding the heroic in the everyday came naturally if painfully.

Led by Monarch Alternative Capital, the firms moved swiftly — if painfully — to make the company profitable.

Hardly anyone expects the Thunder to fade away, especially because of Kevin Durant, who handled the defeat graciously, if painfully.

Resourceful, self-sustaining, if painfully lonely, she survives, barely, on her carving, and her only company is her cat, Taggle.

It is a fictional account of a man whose hopes and failures often feel convincingly, if painfully, real.

AS IF UPN tonight at 9 00 "As If" is painfully bad.

This movement is, if anything, painfully democratic.

If being painfully frugal isn't your ideal way of life during your youth, you could start your own business, which is one way to manage early retirement.

The solution she came up with was strangely elegant, if awful for the Hound: She couldn't bring herself to kill him and she also didn't completely mind if he painfully bled out, so she just walked off.

So it's hardly surprising that those same struggles have critically important echoes and resonances -- if sometimes painfully dissonant ones -- for our bitterly divided politics and disastrous financial crises today.