Sentence examples for painfully sweet from inspiring English sources
Natilla de cajeta, a sort of Mexican crème brûlée topped with a lid of tough caramelized bananas, is dense, grainy and, to my taste, painfully sweet.
For dessert, we did not much like zeppole, that old street-fair staple, dressed to kill in a thick, painfully sweet butterscotch sauce.
As for Gold's early solo albums, which yielded the songs "Thank You for Being a Friend," "Lonely Boy" and "Never Let Her Slip Away," they were painfully sweet but catchy, and I was caught.
The ending was not completely satisfactory, but the characters and their relationships were so seamlessly woven – especially his friendship with Sunya, which was not only painfully sweet but also a chance to see Jamie address the ignorance behind his father's words – that it almost did not matter.
Sarah Silverman penned a painfully sweet obituary for her dog, Duck, back in 2013.
Spring had sprung, which meant the painfully sweet honesty of No. 55 (Frightened Rabbit) and the carefree, if not careless, attitude of No. 62 (FIDLAR).
Alexa is sweet-voiced and painfully articulate; she pauses for breath between phrases, as if winded.
Two nights ago, Hurricane Irene was taking her sweet time, making her painfully slow path up the East Coast towards New York.
His remarks to Hazel, as he tried to shove his paper into the hands of whoever was going past, were usually obvious —"Oh, she's got the binky!" or "She's getting so big, she's gonna be carrying you soon, mami!" he said when she was in her mother's arms — obvious but nonetheless sweet, in an almost painfully vulnerable way.
After a captivating hour-long set, M Ward encores with the Nick Cave-like gothic folk of Sad, Sad Song, a sweet deconstruction of Daniel Johnson's painfully ingenuous The Story of an Artist, and a rollicking cover of Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven.
