Sentence examples for painfully she from inspiring English sources

Why are you clapping?" Smiling painfully, she replied with "I'm clapping because, as you know, I am supporting him".

Painfully, she watched the Olympics and the world championships from the stands.

"That the meeting I had is now casting a shadow over how people will view that work is something that I take seriously and deeply and painfully," she said at the press conference.

Slowly, painfully, she trotted to the line, finishing in a time of four minutes and two seconds, more than two minutes outside her personal best, before, to add insult to injury, she was later disqualified for putting her foot on the inside of the track.

Most painfully, she was separated from her son for over a year, unable to hug or kiss him.

I was like, 'My mom found out what I was—and she asked me to leave.'" Slowly, painfully, she gave them her story.

She can be painfully shy (she scoots off the catwalk after her shows as quickly as she has scooted on), to the extent that those who don't know her find her standoffish.

Firstly, because she is meeting children, she is dressing so as not to disappoint; secondly, because she is genuinely painfully shy, she girds herself to face the outside world.

When Hillary Clinton took the stage on Thursday, she looked out at the audience for her first major address as a presidential candidate since her concession speech seven years ago, when she finally embraced how painfully close she had come to shattering "that highest, hardest glass ceiling".

In truth, Palin's biggest shortcomings are painfully obvious; she doesn't have much experience, she doesn't have a coherent plan to sell herself as a national leader and she hasn't yet learned how to play well with the GOP's biggest power brokers.

Lumet's film is choppy and strained and the actors rarely mesh, but in the circa-1912, hair-piled-high style of Mary, Hepburn is almost painfully ravishing — she really did become more beautiful as she aged, and her looks and her history here take on a kind of allegorical force.