Sentence examples for painfully found from inspiring English sources

Speed isn't everything — as Rather himself painfully found out.

Hawthorn is impossible to beat when it is allowed to play the game on its own terms, as Fremantle and Sydney have painfully found out in the past month.

What Michael Redhill's entrancing novel depicts is itself a kind of Cornell box: a plangently charged little world out of which his narrator painfully finds her way.

It's the story of how this youngest and most underestimated of siblings slowly, painfully, incrementally found genuine purpose of his own in shouldering the weighty burden of familial expectations and the duty of carrying on his slain brothers' work.

Their ideas sounded like common sense to most of the electorate; Democrats struggled painfully to find appealing arguments, and had to choose their words with excruciating precision to avoid painting themselves into an inappropriate ideological corner.

Some she found painfully.

He was painfully shy and found his expression in lashing out at people.

When I was younger I was painfully shy and found it extremely difficult to express myself and be social, although I desperately wanted to.

Unwisely trying it in a smallish room, I found it painfully loud.

Yet too often pegs ended painfully, as overindebted economies found it impossible to maintain the discipline needed to protect them.

Some of the critics who helped make Nin a feminist symbol in the 1960's have reconsidered her work and found it painfully self-important.