Sentence examples for painfully even from inspiring English sources

Painfully, even as he is mocking Ada's face, he feels as though he were kissing her.

Such short-term expedience cannot but exact a long-term price: this dream — and the process of democratic becoming — may be painfully, even fatally, deferred.

In trying to imagine the inner life -- and therefore also the emotional and sensual life -- of his hero (beautifully played by Enrique Irazoqui), Pasolini made his Jesus at once a man of his own time and a painfully, even jarringly, modern figure.

I was at a painfully even keel all the time.

The contradiction of fame is that it is born of something deeply, painfully, even stupidly personal: People become famous because many other people feel an intense connection with them and their work. .

"Painfully, perhaps even dangerously.

A topic still painfully relevant, even today.

That lesson is still being very painfully learned even now.

In business as in politics, Mr. Westly moves deliberately, sometimes painfully so, even when he is breaking ground.

As every bored child who has ridden the length of the New Jersey Turnpike is painfully aware, even two rest stops are named after poets -- Walt Whitman and Joyce Kilmer.

The catch is that this is a "medium term" objective, and progress has been painfully slow even with the need in most countries to slash government spending.