Sentence examples for painfully delicate from inspiring English sources

But still Munich is at great pains to move on, renting a space in London's Docklands during the Games to present its values in a painfully delicate PR balancing act to recall the massacre and lobby for the 2022 Games.

But all this heavy casing of the paint layer is calculated to make the sense of the soft vulnerability of the body within – not just in the painfully delicate exposure of the flesh at her throat and between her breasts, but in the fore-shortened left forearm at her opened sleeve – even more poignant.

Her role here, after all, is "sufferer" (she cringes at this hopeless, dismissive word) and with that comes some deep imperfections and painfully delicate flaws -- all amounting to a lifelong saga whose plot is directed by no one.

Perhaps the most joyful thing about Secret is how collaborative it feels, Clark's squelchy drums and delicate guitar intertwining with Topley-Bird's high-wire vocals, which are both sensual and painfully fragile.

Just how delicate she was became painfully clear by the mid-'70s, when audi­ences watched her wither away before their eyes.

Over the next few years, Curiosity's Sam detector will sniff out delicate isotope variations in the painfully thin remnants of Mars's atmosphere for clues to the timing and nature of this disaster.

Painfully so.

Painfully overpriced.

Progress is painfully slow.

He was painfully shy".

Or painfully obvious ones.