Sentence examples for painfully fell from inspiring English sources

His father was a German-born mill foreman who slowly and painfully fell to the position of night watchman; his mother could read but not write.

You love harder, hurt more painfully, fall more rapidly, grow more quickly, and pull off the stupidest of the stupid with a flick of the wrist.

She soon won the friendship of the bookish Susan Dickinson, before it became apparent that she was flirting with Susan's son, 20-year-old Ned, who fell painfully in love.

While some felt that the technology side of the fashion fell painfully short, we couldn't help ogling Claire Danes' glow-in-the-dark dress or Emma Watson's recycled plastic bottle gown.

Despite the presence of wildly successful programs like Lighting Africa and Bangladesh's IDCOL program -- which has jumpstarted a booming off-grid solar market totaling 3.3 million systems installed to date -- the report shows that the World Bank Group fell painfully short on its investments in clean energy access.

He was thinking then of John Cage, with whom he had been friendly until they fell out, painfully for Cage.

Unfortunately her gags between awards presentations fell on painfully stony ground in the vastness of the Grosvenor House ballroom.

It just forces us to be painfully aware that we fell for your act in the first place.

It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along".

As if this miserable week hasn't been depressing enough, here's some more bad news: That painfully adorable penguin who fell in love with a cardboard cutout of an anime character has passed out of this world, into the wintry heights of arctic bird heaven.

And unemployment, while still painfully high, has fallen a full two points from its peak.