Sentence examples for painfully low from inspiring English sources

(In the interim, there have been some painfully low numbers).

Mr. Shafran forced Cerberus to accept a painfully low valuation of its GMAC stake.

Most are doing the best job they can, on painfully low wages.

They will return a dramatically slashed majority at best, probably exacerbated by a painfully low turnout.

The price of such advertising, compared with broadcast television, is painfully low.

As the number of couples narrows, she'll need to banish her painfully low self-esteem to win over voting spectators.

Back in November 2013, we discussed the reason why Nikita, The CW's painfully low-rated action series, was given a final six-episode season that wouldn't ultimately bring its total to the 88-episode minimum required for traditional syndication.

Then there's 12-year-old Kajal, an industrious — and painfully low-paid — brickyard worker with hopes of becoming a tailor; and Priyanka, a teenage dancer caught between education and early marriage (a reported 47% of Indian girls are wed by age 18).

Japan and Germany have learnt painfully that low nominal interest rates are no protection against house-price declines.Indeed, if homes become seriously overvalued, then low inflation makes a fall in house prices more, not less likely.

The burdens of this zero-sum-gain strategy will fall most painfully upon low-income consumers and small-profit-margin businesses who can least afford them.

"The awareness of our products was painfully, almost pitifully low".