Sentence examples for painfully short from inspiring English sources

otherwise they will have painfully short careers.

We are painfully short of emblematic and iconic civic monuments for film-makers to destroy.

Altruism is a beautiful virtue, but it has fallen painfully short of its goal.

Strong on phrasemaking, the book is painfully short on sources or social and historical context.

They are painfully short of supplies: blankets, soap, surgical equipment, dressings--everything..

"Who Are You Wearing?" wants to borrow that glamour but falls painfully short.

But his victory feels painfully short-lived.

"It is painfully short-sighted and makes a mockery of the President's promise to make our country safer and to support inner cities and rural communities alike".

And Mr Raffarin's changes will not protect small companies forever: in 2008, firms employing fewer than 20 people will have to pay 125% for overtime, not 110% as now.Many big companies that painfully negotiated a shorter working week in 2000-02 are no longer keen to re-open it.

Stillman chatted about his past attempts to write short stories ("painfully slow and cumbersome"); his love of Alexander Hamilton, if not "Hamilton" ("I'm not interested in hip-hop"); and the value of the Motion Picture Production Code, the set of moral guidelines for American movies between the thirties and the sixties ("I say it raised cinema's standards. You would say 'censorship.'censorship

Of the various bizarre decisions the Grammys have made with electronic music categorisation - instating Best Dance Recording (1998) nearly two decades after the short-lived, painfully late Best Disco Recording (1980), for one - it was introducing the Best Dance/Electronica Album category in 2005 that really stumbled them off anything resembling a tastemaker path. .