Sentence examples for painfully acquired from inspiring English sources

It is painfully acquired through hours of poring over grammar textbooks and memorising the Koran.

His painfully acquired respect for it and Polgar's preference for active tactics surely combined to lure him to try it.

Well, getting the details wrong assists those who would dismiss all the data and conclusions painfully acquired by Unscom experts.

With his main character dead, what remains for Roth is to decipher him from the vantage point of his own painfully acquired maturity.

If you have painfully acquired an immunity from malaria and then you move away from the malarial area, in a couple of years your immunity fades away, and if you return to the malaria area you're susceptible all over again.

I know this because they just kicked me out of my painfully acquired hotel room when they took over the whole of the eighth floor of the Radisson Blu Hotel where I am staying.

Even if one has – or painfully acquires, or borrows from other current scholars – the breadth of reference to understand the source of an allusion or citation, it is not always clear what the citation is doing there, and what Hamann means to suggest by referring to it.

And even if Hepburn was perceived as having class, it was not in a straightforward way; Holly Golightly cheekily appropriates the manners of the rich in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Eliza Doolittle, three years later in My Fair Lady, has painfully to acquire them.

Boeing is as good as it gets when it comes to the efficient construction of large aircraft, and has painfully and expensively acquired expertise in carbon-fibre composites as it developed its 787 Dreamliner, a civil airliner.

Practice involves conscious application, monitoring what one is doing, bringing all one's intelligence and sensibility and values to bear — even though what is so painfully and consciously acquired may then become automatic, coded in motor patterns at a subcortical level.

And for craft — painfully, stubbornly, at last stunningly acquired — read Julie Harris".