Sentence examples similar to s painfully from inspiring English sources

In the opening episode of BBC4's painfully acute mockumentary Twenty Twelve, Hugh Bonneville's Olympic Deliverance Team chief feels things start to tip out of control as a result of a snafu with a countdown clock commissioned from a trendy Shoreditch artist.

It figures, given the film's painfully forced audacities.

But Hogsback's story is painfully real.

Steven Kemp's set design is painfully realistic.

This is also true: she's painfully shy.

"How's it going?" "Slowly, painfully.

Manuel found Atlanta's predicament painfully familiar.

And, painfully, Domenech's detractors are right.

As television endings go, it has been more protracted than Rachel and Ross's painfully drawn-out relationship.

Egypt's painfully slow programme of economic liberalisation (now almost 20 years old) has yielded painfully slow results.

Of course one person's elegance might be another's painfully detailed hyperviolence.