Sentence examples for painfully yet from inspiring English sources

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Healing was there, burrowing its roots deep into my heart, painfully yet purposefully cutting through, the way the strong roots do until they are grounded deep enough to anchor what they know will follow -- growth.

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Miss Bates blushes painfully, and yet accepts the truth of Emma's critique.

In Motherland we have the wish list writing powerhouse giving us a painfully accurate yet fresh take on the relentless emotional carnage of child-rearing.

THE HEARTBREAK KID The Farrelly brothers' extroverted remake of Elaine May's anxious 1972 comedy, about a man who falls in love with another woman while on his honeymoon, is painfully unfunny yet oddly enjoyable.

Meanwhile, descendants of those who died or whose lives had been scarred by service, reflected on the generational legacies of war that are always painfully resonant yet sometimes emotionally intangible.

Their parodies of both 1970s prog and heavy metal cock-rock remain painfully accurate, yet lewd 1984 anthem Sex Farm has been transformed into a funk workout with a preposterously clunky rap break.

He had no attachment.'' For de Zulueta, the parallel that Abe draws between the plight of war orphans, human and elephant, is painfully apt, yet also provides some cause for hope, given the often startling capacity of both animals for recovery.

Pete, like the main character in Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity," is painfully lonely, yet he just can't commit to one woman: he's falling hard for the smart and beguiling Esme, but he still has feelings for Winter, the stripper he occasionally sleeps with.

The novel is structured in such a way that it exerts a considerable grip, the tension slowly, painfully building, yet the writing is also evocative and Donoghue has a particularly good eye for costume and the way cloths confer status, the fine stitching, the liquid warmth of velvet and the stays that sculpt a woman's body as if it were putty, as if it were a sinful thing that needed to be fixed.

His career was painfully short, yet he touched more people than he could ever know".

Soles4Souls -- They are dedicated to helping the impoverished around the world gain access to this painfully simple yet painfully elusive luxury.

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