Sentence examples for painfully romantic from inspiring English sources

There is something almost painfully romantic about the memories of viewers wowed by dancers you yourself never had the chance to see.

The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes's third feature, "Tabu," which opened Wednesday at Film Forum (I've got a capsule review of it in the magazine this week), is one of the most original and inventive — as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic — movies of recent years.

"Sin Ti" ("Without You") is timeless and painfully romantic.

It was painfully romantic, though my stomach was heaving with laughter.

That essay made me cry — specifically at the painfully (joyfully) romantic point towards the end when she starts to address her husband in the second person: Real love came much later.

If you want to see a great movie about two people whose friendship slowly, sometimes painfully turns romantic, 1989's When Harry Met Sally still can't be beat.

Will your future kids go to private or public school?) This may be a painfully un-romantic exercise, but it will ensure that you and your partner are on the same page when it comes to financial expectations -- or whether the differences you do have are deal-breakers.

Remember: This is the SDS that Neier broke with — the naïve, romantic, painfully earnest SDS of "participatory democracy," whose slogan as late as the 1964 election was "Part of the way with LBJ".

Remember: This is the SDS that Neier broke with the naïve, romantic, painfully earnest SDS of "participatory democracy," whose slogan as late as the 1964 election was "Part of the way with LBJ".

These two actors are painfully awkward in their brief, romantic moments.

The delightful story concerns a painfully shy Tuscan village bumpkin who overcomes his romantic timidity thanks to a roving quack, who sells him a miracle love potion (actually just a bottle of wine).