Sentence examples for painfully difficult from inspiring English sources

Working within the current constraints has been painfully difficult.

Their relationship advances in painfully difficult and subtly slow increments, and the sexual tension is all but unbearable.

Reaching a decision to impose the death penalty, they say, is painfully difficult, with haunting effects that linger long after the trial ends.

It was a painfully difficult time for President George Bush, who had faced a series of humiliating rebellions from conservatives after breaking his pledge not to raise taxes.

The gate was cast in metal and fashioned in a tangled, thicket-like pattern that suggests the painfully difficult passage from life to death for those who died in the caves.

But had chance to go hands-on with the chimerical creation that is the sublimely named Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and, somehow, the disparate parts all manage to fit together into a gory, entertaining and painfully difficult whole.

Recovering from the latter, they say, is painfully slow and difficult.

Yet that's exactly why all of Kertesz's venturing and shrugging distracts so painfully from the difficult, haunting truth of what he has to say.

Sure, you can always turn to a laptop or iPhone to get a digital copy, but most transit websites are painfully slow and difficult to navigate.

But other aspects of the trial make its difficult circumstances painfully clear.

With 53 injured and in hospital, on top of the 50 dead, the job of identifying those deceased and those still clinging to life has been difficult and painfully slow.