Sentence examples for painfully false from inspiring English sources
Her mother, Sally, told the inquiry on Monday that discovering the deletions had given her what proved to be painfully false hope that her daughter was still alive and checking her voice mail.
When Leeds United first ended up in League One it felt like a painfully false position, as was shown by their scorching start to the 2007-08 season under Dennis Wise.
This kind of fiction is painfully bad, being doubly false.
We are painfully reminded of the false pretexts used to justify the invasion of Iraq more than three years ago.
But those words feel false, or at least painfully inadequate, in the context of our political culture today — and not only because Ron Paul, for one, seems to be basking in love.
The premise for the movie seems painfully cliche: how a record label creates a false persona that fans love but the musician secretly hates.
But, so often during Kids, they invite us into the headspace of teenagers who are realizing, quite painfully, that their lives will be filled with false promises and dead ends.
The sight of Welles, as Arkadin, maneuvering like a big-time director of the world itself all the while hiding behind a patently false beard and hairpiece and an artificially burnished complexion is almost too painfully intimate to watch.
The sight of Welles, as Arkadin, maneuvering like a big-time director of the world itself — all the while hiding behind a patently false beard and hairpiece and an artificially burnished complexion — is almost too painfully intimate to watch.
