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How to use Painfully in a sentence

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Painfully shy, agoraphobic and intensely private, the outline of his life is, for the most part, a list of publications.
Painfully aware of every minute occurrence nearby, she progressed, one foot moving soundlessly in front of the other.
Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted.
Painfully loud, deathly quiet, gospel as not-gospel with gospel singers, they were a rush and a thrill, sonic joys for sonic joys and sonic depths for sonic depths.
Painfully for Lugar, the Club for Growth is headed by former Indiana congressman Chris Chocola, a former friend and ally.
She hit the ground painfully, landing on an elbow and cheek, with the edge of the glass door swinging back to lodge firmly against her hip.
Once considered painfully shy, he is now notorious for being surly and unwilling to suffer fools.
So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable.
The process may have been low-key and painfully slow, but it has seen the old Republican gods and heroes repudiated.
But moments of effective humor are rare oases amidst a desert of painfully unfunny and sophomoric material.
He'd seemed astounded, but poor Ryan had been making himself painfully obvious.
Tool will not be moving over for Klaxons, because Klaxons aren't very good musicians and are being painfully gimmicky with their occultness.
The engine oiler had a painfully swollen jaw, apparently from an abscessed tooth.
To all you backstabbers, haters and bastards, I hope you die slowly and painfully!
That's what comes from subjecting oneself to confusion and some painfully obvious bias on both sides of the argument.
As we have painfully learnt during periods of national food shortages, it is expensive and wasteful to let crops rot for lack of storage space.
I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react.
Lydia could feel herself falling swiftly into the dark blue caverns of Gerhard's eyes as she let herself be lulled by his painfully true words.
Her hands were bound together by a painfully tight rope, chafing badly at her wrists.
Nor do its people feel any need to hide their light under a bushel like the painfully self-conscious and underconfident Scots.
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Indeed, it was only on leave-taking, and then far from painfully, you were reminded of being in an inn.
And, as Turpin had done, so also did he painfully crawl towards the stream.
At one particular and vital point this shows painfully, and that is her slowness in socializing her home.
They reminded her of sorrows in which I have since painfully learned to sympathise.
His cheek twitched painfully as he thought of the huge amount of his losings to Lablache.
Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to anisette.
The Gaon's proclamation hinted at this work, and its author felt painfully hurt by the attack.
I gave her a pat on the chin scarcely consistent with my aged and tottering mien and proceeded to shamble painfully to my room.
But she was irresponsive because she was shy, uncomfortably, painfully shy.
Again, Garson was forced to wet his lips with a dry tongue, and to swallow painfully.
As he saw it, society would grow better only through the painfully slow and arduously painful processes of evolution.
The obedient die-hard disappeared, and Dickson painfully and laboriously set himself to climb the slope.
Carefully and painfully she drew herself to her knees and, dinging to the rope, crept up the rock hand over hand.
He was painfully affected by this disclaimer of a charge which he had not made.
For he had been painfully conscious now and then that he played but second fiddle.
The freezing wind, flurrying across the desert, drove the fine particles of sand painfully against their faces.
He bit his tongue painfully in covering that slip, but dryad had not seemed to notice it.
But seen from the wet and rolling decks, in this weather and these circumstances, it only impresses one giddily and painfully.
But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy.
Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
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