Sentence examples for painfully weak from inspiring English sources

The loyalty and decency of such characters as Macduff hardly offset what is so painfully weak in the play's protagonist.

Meanwhile, the dollar, while painfully weak against many foreign currencies, still functions as the international medium of exchange.

In Europe, the big economies of Germany and France returned to growth six months ago but consumer spending remains painfully weak.

Notwithstanding Thursday's progress, we are still without a single councillor in Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle and remain painfully weak in Scotland and Wales.

CENTRAL banks in the developed world continue to keep monetary policy as loose as possible for as long as possible in order to facilitate a stronger recovery from the painfully weak upturn after the financial crisis and the "great recession".

Two of them, Li Xurong, 49, and her husband, are both painfully weak, barely managing -- the wife with boils and mouth sores that make swallowing excruciating, the husband with headaches and high fevers.

They said it was "painfully weaker" than the other ones they tested in surveys.

Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Even then, performance will be terrible; it will be a decentralized virtual machine, but a painfully slow and weak one compared to the computer on your desk, or even the one in your pocket.

He scored 46 in the second match, but was struck painfully on his weak arm by a short ball from Keith Miller, whom he encountered for the first time.

Chancellor George Osborne told the BBC's Today programme that RBS had been "painfully honest" about how weak a bank it was, and that the decision to create an internal bad bank "would make it easier to sell off the bank and get our money back".