Sentence examples for painfully dark from inspiring English sources

But she played only a handful of games at Hunter before her fun life turned painfully dark on a summer day in 2001.

The torment of one aspiring young man is the subject of "Brown," an almost painfully dark and funny farce by Cherie Vogelstein.

From the John Robinson II era, as a USC Trojan Marching Band member, through three deployments to the Middle East, including some painfully dark days in the fall of 2005, Rankman has been an essential part of my life and, at times, my sanity.

The finished film, with its painfully believable dark vision, was a succès d'estime and surprisingly popular when it came out.

Re "A Berlin Find: Art's Survivors of Hitler's War," by Michael Kimmelman (Abroad column, front page, Dec. 1): Germany's current exhibition of surviving remnants of the Nazi regime's notorious "Degenerate Art" show is a creditable sign of its present willingness to honestly and painfully confront its dark past.

In photos and video from that time, she is a whisper of a person, painfully thin, with dark hair framing her lean face.

Your great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will stumble across his shagadelic, and painfully unfunny, creation one dark night and shudder to think at how we once gathered round to watch it at Christmas.

The public became painfully aware of the darker side of health care in November when the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences reported that medical mistakes killed anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 people a year.

Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life.

His book is dark, funny, at times painfully honest, and strips much of the mythology from counting, which turns out to be less difficult than most people imagine and also a lot less glamorous.

Now, usually my dreams are like anyone's; a disjointed and ultimately disorientating trek through the darker alleys of my own painfully mundane psyche.