Sentence examples for painfully trying from inspiring English sources

He was in rehab centers, under house arrest, released from the Dodgers and the Giants, suspended on a number of occasions, painfully trying to make it all right again, trying to come back time and time again.

He remembers his brother's death, an early courtship, his days working in a factory after he dropped out of school and was painfully trying to fit in with his fellow "proletarians," who of course thought he was crazy to have passed up an education.

"The Arrogant Years," instead, finds its center in 1960s America, where a broken Leon fades mutely into the background, and Edith emerges, a wounded bird painfully trying to finagle some tiny measure of success or happiness for her blighted loved ones.

Let's face it: Looking at contemporary art can be a frustrating and unrewarding experience (unless you count painfully trying to decipher overly intellectual art-speak as "good times").

I'm slowly, and painfully, trying to rebuild my sense of self worth, but there are many days when I don't feel I have the fortitude to keep pushing through the discomfort.

The sheket, the quiet, Israelis so desperately and understandably crave will only come from a serious political rearrangement of the territory which two peoples are awkwardly and painfully trying to share.

Now, we are haunted by these memories as we painfully try to reach for the moon once again in 2020, 60 years after the first moon landing.

For years I had painfully tried to change my body.

Younger sister Callie withdraws and pines for the attention of her family and painfully tries to gain her family's attention and win over her new chimpanzee brother, Charlie.

It's an almost painfully try-hard attempt to rebrand that everyday transparent fluid, vital to human survival, as something elegant, cool, and classy.

It's so painfully tedious trying to feed Billie, she's getting worse, thinner too.