Sentence examples for painfully scarce from inspiring English sources

Clinchingly, although what depictions we have of them are painfully scarce, the Brontë daughters didn't look remotely like these three.

The nation lost 85,000 jobs from the economy in December, the Labor Department reported Friday, as hopes for a vigorous recovery ran headlong into the prospect that paychecks could remain painfully scarce into next year.

The subjects in philosophy are preciously scarce, and the intellectual realm painfully small, so being forced to give up my dominion over them initially struck me as a bit of a cosmic injustice.

Progress is painfully slow.

Painfully honest.

(Bookings scarce).

Painfully so.

Food is often scarce for those who don't have dollars, but Tattlin's Cuba is full of art openings and mojito-filled parties where foreigners and Cubans debate world politics and watch painfully lovely sunsets.

Painfully overpriced.

He was painfully shy".

Or painfully obvious ones.