Sentence examples for painfully quiet from inspiring English sources

But for the state's hospitality industry, it is painfully quiet.

It was painfully quiet at noon Friday (a shoeshine man's rush hour), but Mr. Iacono was bubbling with optimism.

Sometimes the house falls painfully quiet, Ms. Thornton said, though she has become more lenient about leaving "Law & Order" reruns on while the children complete their homework.

There was some earnest shushing during the painfully quiet songs, the faithful apparently wanting to commune in peace with the human beings who had made that record.

Mike York, at 5 feet 10 inches and 185 pounds, is not very big for a hockey player, and he is painfully quiet.

The phones have been ringing lately, and that's a good thing because Mr. Flake is a real estate agent and a property manager — and it wasn't long ago that things were painfully quiet.

As with his conference speech, he surpassed expectations – partly because he seemed to understand that the best counterpoint to David Cameron's parliamentary style is to be quiet, painfully reasonable and forensic.

The classic of this subgenre is Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" (1965), in which a quiet, painfully shy French girl, living in London with her sister, is left on her own for a few days and doesn't handle her solitude well.

The New England winter feels painfully heavy, and overwhelmingly quiet.

Deyckecaire isn't the kinetic showoff of Modiano's first novel or the moral dilettante of his second, but a quiet man, painfully awkward, observed by his son with a yearning flecked with contempt: He gave a faint smile, more a tremor of the lips, as though afraid of being hit, and I pitied him.

Lives of quiet desperation, lived painfully.