Sentence examples for painfully limited from inspiring English sources
The political calculus is clear: resources are painfully limited, and neglected victims pose no immediate threat to society.
Time as the prison warden to all sentient beings, whose ideas about sexuality, politics, mental illness and justice are often painfully limited by the thinking of a particular moment, or context.
The children enjoyed Mr. Tocci's inquiring style, but their answers sometimes seemed painfully limited; it was a method that seemed intended for children who learn as much at home as in school.
Jones was right to give Saturday's four-try effort over a painfully limited South Africa side only a pass mark but he was equally conscious of the wider ramifications.
But the buzz eventually fizzled; a critical book written in 1969 by Marvin Minsky and his collaborator Seymour Papert showed that Rosenblatt's original system was painfully limited, literally blind to some simple logical functions like "exclusive-or" (As in, you can have the cake or the pie, but not both).
Despite its sheer size, the impact of the new President's fiscal program, after the initial euphoria, will be painfully limited.
The reality is once more painfully limiting: Ashraf hasn't spoken to his friend in 15 years.
Marion Cotillard never ceases to be watchable even in a role as painfully limiting as Gabrielle, a gorgeously miserable 1950s Frenchwoman who spends all (and I do mean all) her time pining for men who will never be hers, while her perfectly decent, sensitively stubbled husband (Alex Brendemühl) suffers silently in the background.
The boy's imagination may be unconstrained, but like any child he is tethered to the will of others and a set of painfully familiar limiting facts.
With manager Owen Coyle barking instructions from the touchline, Bolton limited United to three in the first half but, while Klasnic and Martin Petrov linked well at times, the home side were painfully short of creativity.
If China wants to make the yuan a global currency this will require further loosening of foreign-exchange controls, and hence revaluation.Last, but not least, the crisis painfully underlined the limits of export-led growth.
