She was a woman of inchoate ambition — an ambition that took the shape mainly of ambitious friendships and painfully comic intellectual pretensions.
This isn't to take from the brilliance of his poetry: intellectual, ambitious, honest – God, painfully so at times – and, above all, that language, swooning and swooping through the brightest skies.
But though the rules were bent for this talented and ambitious intellectual, the painfully slim majority illustrated that, for a large section of the UUP, Trimble was not and never could be 'one of us'.
They use the technology to counter and contain whatever they do not like about it: filtering, painfully slow connections and an ambitious but so far incomplete intranet project.
One such norm, which she confronts with grace, is our collective tendency to view the child-rearing choice as the gap in an impassable rift between the intellectually ambitious and the painfully dull, guided only by their boring biological wants.
Keaton herself was an odd mix of painfully unsure of herself and ferociously ambitious, and that pattern would continue, as would her sense of the family as a fundamentally eccentric unit.
Teesside and east Yorkshire struggle from their geographical isolation getting to nearby cities, yet alone London, is painfully slow.And even with growth, the most ambitious and best-educated people will still tend to leave places like Hull.
Even Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham called out Gmail as painfully slow in a recent essay detailing ambitious startup ideas, saying that if someone were to build a service that was only as good as Gmail, but fast, that alone would allow them to pull away users from Google's service.
But with most states struggling to balance their budgets -- and with Washington planning trillions of dollars in cuts in coming years -- there is also painfully little money available to dive in with ambitious job-creation programs.
But with most states struggling to balance their budgets — and with Washington planning trillions of dollars in cuts in coming years — there is also painfully little money available to dive in with ambitious job-creation programs or investing in infrastructure, for example.
