Sentence examples for painfully anxious from inspiring English sources
She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good".
Virginia Woolf thought he was "painfully anxious", and suspected "that he is now inclined to question whether Eminent Victorians, 4 in number, & requiring 4 years for their production, are quite enough to show for his age and pretensions".
This painfully shy, anxious boy, rejected, taunted and bullied, finally felt he had found his place in the world, part of a glorious struggle that promised him a heroic identity and spiritual immortality as a suicide bomber in Iraq.
When she falls in love with Brad, the transformation comes slowly and painfully: at first, a nervous gesture, a smile that turns anxious, and then a golden aureole of beauty, a body in movement.
THE HEARTBREAK KID The Farrelly brothers' extroverted remake of Elaine May's anxious 1972 comedy, about a man who falls in love with another woman while on his honeymoon, is painfully unfunny yet oddly enjoyable.
Progress is painfully slow.
Or painfully obvious ones.
