Sentence examples for painfully ordinary from inspiring English sources

Barnes said of his staging, "It takes a painfully ordinary little show and launches it into space".

And jurors have heard that even a state's top political minds can sound crass, unsophisticated and painfully ordinary when they think no one else is listening.

Your Sept. 26 front-page article about Rodney Rocha, the humble, thoughtful and almost painfully ordinary NASA engineer, emphasizes his quiet and dogged heroism.

He is a painfully ordinary man and -- it must be said -- a boring one; yet his blandness is a cover for a terrible neediness and loneliness.

He wrote a painfully ordinary letter, posted it, and had no reply, which was unsurprising, for the address she had given him was Scottish and she was in the Caribbean.

For all Sarah's sins — neglecting her child, wallowing in romantic delusions — there's something almost brave about her refusal to join the supermoms drilling their toddlers with dreams of Harvard, and about her yearning for more than "a painfully ordinary life".

Bonello can only imagine the ordinary because his imagination is painfully ordinary; the banality of the terrorists in "Nocturama" isn't a reflection on a banal society but on the banality of his own filmmaking skills.

(Sisario) NICKELBACK (Thursday) This quartet of Marlboro men from the tiny Canadian prairie town of Hanna, Alberta, had last year's fourth-best-selling album with "All the Right Reasons" (Roadrunner), whose painfully ordinary commercial rock has one big (and superpopular) standout: "Photograph," a post-grunge ballad the way Ray Davies would write one, tangy and reflective.