Sentence examples for painfully cheap from inspiring English sources

In a last show of defiance, even the hoardings that hide some sort of building work look painfully cheap.

The industry has really changed!" Perspective is the cheapest, most painfully earned, value.

Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine criticized the song for "cheap" lyrics and "painfully enunciat[ing] without any resemblance of actual sex appeal".

The results are painfully clear.

This tax plan makes it painfully clear.

"Freaks" had some of the most painfully acute music choices of any show ever televised (Cheap Trick's "Gonna Raise Hell," Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil," Journey's "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' ").

But Walker takes the cheap thrills of the format and flips it painfully on its head.

Unless conservation increases or the drought eases, Mr. Norman warned that by late summer, the Northwest's era of cheap power could come to a sudden and painfully expensive end.

Lions for Lambs: Painfully earnest and talky, with Redford shooting everything with the cheap, clammy look and feel of an incredibly self-righteous production by the Max Fischer Players.

Shops do a roaring trade during holidays, when crowds come back from Belgium to spend their euros on cheaper Polish products.Yet Siemiatycze's residents are painfully aware that this is neither an economically nor socially healthy state of affairs.

For us, going to Paris or Madrid or anywhere in Europe is now painfully expensive, but for lucky euro-earners, London and Britain have suddenly become very cheap.