Sentence examples for painfully failed from inspiring English sources

I do not believe we want to enter this new century pledging allegiance to the liberal ideas that so painfully failed us in the last century".

Furthermore, and as Game of Thrones' Kit Harington so painfully failed to work out recently, there are no losers when male stars self-emasculate for comedy purposes.

In announcing his candidacy for senator from New York, Representative Rick Lazio decried "the liberal ideas that so painfully failed us in the last century" (front page, May 21).

In the past week, Ms. Brown has been one of dozens of people searching their consciences, and coming up with an ambiguous picture of parents who so painfully failed their children that 19-year-old Bruce Jackson weighed 45 pounds.

Were that not enough, they intend to do it in a style befitting their footballing ethos and tradition, succeeding where their predecessors so painfully failed on home soil in 1950.

The revamped solution is available on the web, desktop, and both major mobile platforms, and Convo promises that your messages will remain secure and that you can trust that messages sent from both desktop and mobile will show up in chat logs no matter which device you're on — something Skype has painfully failed at for me in the past.

Individuals make mistakes, individuals are the point of failure: Even savvy people can easily make the wrong call about how to keep their private keys or you can end up buying "fake" hardware wallets, your memory could painfully fail you, you may throw away your computer by mistake, forgetting your keys on it.

There's the famous scene in 1997's "The Full Monty" where a dancer tries and painfully fails to scale the wall in emulation of O'Connor.

Mr Abe won the election in a landslide, yet barely two years later he has called another.One reason for this is painfully obvious: Mr Abe has failed to deliver on those promises.

But the key dynamic in the film, Bullock's rivalry with Billy Bob Thornton's character, is painfully underdeveloped and fails to bring the sparks needed for the tale to truly ignite.

Attempting to replicate the success, if not the warmth, of Britcoms like "Love, Actually" and "Notting Hill" — at one point, a character excitedly pronounces a particular scene as being "just like a Hugh Grant film" — this painfully awkward product fails on almost every level.