Sentence examples for painfully withdrawn from inspiring English sources

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Shot with handheld digital video cameras, his film is about a guy holed up in a squalid flat, making amateur "gonzo" porn with a couple of would-be adult-movie stars, while his painfully withdrawn son stays in his own room and tries not to think about it all.

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For all of his uncontrollable inner violence, Lyle is attracted to the painfully shy, withdrawn Tracy (the superb Zooey Deschanel).

Many of us know that our symptoms are kept in check while we are on antibiotics, but they painfully reappear when the antibiotics are withdrawn.

"Oblique, equivocal, painfully self-questioning … timid, small, in retreat … ever more private, idiosyncratic, and withdrawn".

• To the Editor: I am the mother of a 35-year-old adult woman with autism and painfully aware of the sobriquet "refrigerator mothers," who, Karl Taro Greenfeld explains, were "mistakenly blamed for their children's withdrawn, antisocial condition".

Nervous investors will withdraw from the market, and the momentum painfully generated over the past decade will quickly dissipate.

Some how, these limber young people managed to not only withdraw their phone, but to punch out and send a text or tweet while their hands were cuffed painfully behind their backs.

After trying the swinging life (at John's instigation), they withdrew because of Gina's reluctance to play, and the damage their experimentation has done to the marriage is painfully visible.

We withdrew".

Some withdraw.

Reggie withdrew.

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