Sentence examples for painfully unable from inspiring English sources

Having sat on innumerable interview panels, I groan as applicants with sound paper qualifications are painfully unable to present themselves in a group, speak well, write clearly, or show simple manners and charm.

Quite painfully, that meant I was unable to vote in the Brexit referendum.

She was soon wincing and making it painfully obvious that she was unable to cover the court or even complete a ground stroke without discomfort.

One soldier, Private Wallace Jenkins, is left still semi-conscious and painfully aware of his predicament, unable to control his movement or actions as his former friends and he attack McKay's troops.

Hence, Diane is the personification of dissatisfaction, painfully illustrated when she is unable to climax while masturbating, in a scene that indicates "through blurred, jerky, point of view shots of the stony wall not only her tears and humiliation but the disintegration of her fantasy and her growing desire for revenge".

Why was I so unable to do something so painfully simple?

It's become painfully obvious that the 43-year-old is unable to get anything like the maximum out of the potential at his disposal, to say nothing about taking Schalke to a different level altogether.

One of the most pressing issues Mark Hughes faces at Stoke is to rejuvenate a midfield that was painfully drab and lumpen under Tony Pulis, who was ultimately unable to construct a team that could offer anything beyond huff and puff.

Husna has been unable to breastfeed him, and he is painfully thin and underweight.

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

An obese man had been painfully stuffed between two close walls, in a narrow passage, and was unable to extricate himself.