Sentence examples for painfully inappropriate from inspiring English sources

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As they stare into the camera, I notice the painfully inappropriate English slogan emblazoned on her T-shirt.

Ms. Block has been given a painfully inappropriate Allen song called "She Loves to Hear the Music," which the actress, wearing a Halstonesque minidress, delivers as a wild-eyed nervous breakdown, amid a writhing throng of dancers.

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His plays depend, as comedy does, on the vitality of the actors to make pleasurable what would otherwise be painfully awkward -- inappropriate speeches, missed connections, faux pas, stumbles, childishness -- but as part of a deeper pathos; the stumbles are not pratfalls but an energized, graceful dissolution of purpose".

Despite painfully low rates on "inappropriate", cash-based choices including savings and bonds, huge numbers of advisers are afraid to suggest equities that could be far better suited to long-term investors, according to a new study.

That awkwardness was at the heart of the character for which people know him best: George Michael Bluth, the painfully confused adolescent with an inappropriate crush on his cousin in the fanatically admired sitcom "Arrested Development".

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.

Painfully honest.

Progress is painfully slow.

Painfully so.

Painfully overpriced.

He was painfully shy".

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