Sentence examples for painfully less from inspiring English sources

The man who opted for Groton was, at least, someone who worked for what he had and who could imagine having painfully less.

And this, in turn, made less of Ross -- in the eyes of many New Yorker veterans, painfully less -- because it turned him from the great and farseeing editor they knew into a kind of hapless Thurber husband who lucked out by hiring Thurber.

Arguably the more painfully, the less prepared one is.

The ban on satellite television is less painfully applied.

Rather, he was just looking for a way to view it less painfully.

You can imagine how the show would proceed from here, but you would probably imagine it less painfully.

He was committed to discovering and combining anti-aging agents, both natural and manufactured, and he devised instruments to more accurately and less painfully deliver subcutaneous fillers.

Durant's learning process ramped up painfully — but with less scrutiny — in his 2009 playoff debut, a first-round loss to the Lakers.

The commentary on socialism deeply ingrained in the material -- well, to the extent that anything is deep here -- functions far less painfully when it, too, is benign.

The government's problems played out in miniature, but no less painfully, for people who had taken out mortgages and car loans in euros and Swiss francs.

That's my feeling about this show's beamish collegiality, and it might have been the same, only less painfully, were Hillary Clinton in the White House.