Sentence examples for painfully real from inspiring English sources

It was, for me, horribly, painfully, real.

But Hogsback's story is painfully real.

The messy humanity beneath them, however, is painfully real.

To feel like this is both silly and painfully real.

As the Greek crisis unfolds, these ancient questions are made painfully real.

It's the quintessential designer sound bite, but in this case it feels painfully real.

A tax on foreign-currency inflows and the Central Bank's interventions have engineered a fall in the painfully strong real of around 20% since February.

Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us.

And then, painfully, the real world will reappear.Ireland in the 1990s became the "Celtic tiger", with the sort of astounding growth rates that used to be associated with Singapore.

This nightmare for Glavine and the Mets was painfully, bitterly real and will haunt them for years, forever for the prime participants — Omar Minaya, Willie Randolph, Glavine and the rest of the players who transformed the 2007 season from potentially unforgettably good to realistically unforgettably bad.

The snappy dialogue, the details ("the Ba-Da-Bing Club") all feel painfully and exhilaratingly real.