Sentence examples for painfully flawed from inspiring English sources
The characters in the best of the ads — the ones from the seventies and eighties — are terribly human, which is to say painfully flawed.
FX specializes in shows with painfully flawed heroes.
It does so by reflecting our painfully flawed world right back to us.
That the tragedies of our own age happen in suburban semis, or on Travellers' sites, does not make them any less cathartic – and Ryan's choice of narrator, a character both deeply flawed and painfully guilty, shows him working in the great tradition of tragic fiction, his lonely adulteress coming to grief in the same shadowy spaces as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina.
But neither the actors nor the director, Rob Urbinati, can overcome one painfully obvious flaw in the script.
Her role here, after all, is "sufferer" (she cringes at this hopeless, dismissive word) and with that comes some deep imperfections and painfully delicate flaws -- all amounting to a lifelong saga whose plot is directed by no one.
It is becoming painfully clear that the American plan (if it can even be dignified with the name) for dealing with postwar Iraq was flawed in its conception and ineptly carried out.
