Sentence examples for painfully because from inspiring English sources

After a while, Mrs. Van Buren got up — stiffly and painfully, because of her arthritis — and accompanied me upstairs in a smart royal-blue elevator and then along carefully graded ramps for a look at her small but very pleasant apartment.

Within America, by contrast, cost imbalances are resolved less painfully, because workers are willing to move from depressed states to where jobs are more plentiful.Portugal's ballooning trade deficit in the late 1990s was a symptom of declining competitiveness and the economy has yet to recover from the subsequent bust.

Naomi is breathless with humility and hope: 'I realised - slowly and painfully because I did not want to at first - that everything sensible that had ever guided me rightly was there in them.' There follows a series of epiphanies for Naomi, the majority of which stem from her sense of achievement at learning the small ceremonies of DIY.

And this, in turn, made less of Ross -- in the eyes of many New Yorker veterans, painfully less -- because it turned him from the great and farseeing editor they knew into a kind of hapless Thurber husband who lucked out by hiring Thurber.

Reforming pensions is painfully slow, because pensions of existing workers are legally protected.

As the country has learned painfully, just because spy agencies are sure of something doesn't mean it's true.

In practice this can be painfully slow, because the best chains tend to expand prudently rather than rush to create empires.

Clumps of empty blue and green seats are painfully obvious because many of them are in the best sections or right behind home plate, while fans are concentrated in the more remote parts of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.

I hadn't seen the sleeve in decades, but it was painfully familiar because it used to make regular appearances in our Black Country living room in the 1970s.

Australians may be forgiven for finding the Enron debacle painfully familiar, because the same story line unfolded here months earlier, in the collapse of the country's second-largest insurer, the HIH Group, with a negative net worth estimated at $2.8 billion.

She said that thinking about her directorial debut, "Little Man Tate," can sometimes move her to tears: "It's like a first novel you write; it's the most you and in some ways painfully you, because you see all the words and all the, you know, the lack of confidence.