Sentence examples for painfully negative from inspiring English sources

An often-overlooked result of crime is that the victim and offender have a relationship they have a painfully negative experience in common.

Kevin Gardiner, a strategist at HSBC, says that real returns from American shares were just 0.1% a year from 1966-81; they fell a dismal 1.3% a year from 1973 to 1981.Although that performance was much better than the painfully negative returns suffered by holders of government bonds, it was a long way short of the 6-7% returns that shares have historically achieved.

Unless you were long gold, the dollar and fixed-income paper, returns were painfully negative.

A choice between embracing your ability to control the way you experience life, thereby allowing yourself to feel an entire range of emotions from the most ecstatically positive to the most painfully negative, and not embracing your ability to control the way you experience life, thereby reacting to both positive and negative emotions.

Yet he must have been painfully aware of the colonel's negative opinion of his abilities.

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine gave the album a negative review, criticizing Minogue's "painfully precise" vocals and the album's monotiny.

She liked the softness produced by her painfully long exposures, while the flaws in her homemade negatives gave character to the pictures.

We have been painfully reminded of the fact that social media can provide an adult-free space for negative student culture to form and perpetuate itself.

On the other hand, a cutter may do it because she is overwhelmed by painfully severe anxiety or depression, and the physical pain she gets from cutting alleviates the negative emotion.

(2) Paul Ryan's (R-WI) incredibly disingenuous and negative criticism of America's anti-poverty programs and his recent speech at CPAC support the painfully obvious fact that Ryan's intense antagonism and blatant contempt for poor Americans is unrelenting.

Progress is painfully slow.