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Example sentences for: painfully

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And I'd say this was astonishing, except for the fact that selective disclosure remains a painfully common practice.
Woefully, painfully ignorant of the most basic facts of life, I was always ill at ease in the company of men."
It is this quality--or lack of quality--of simply transplanting the real and making it into "shocking" art, which is in my opinion the bane of contemporary art today, nowhere more painfully than at the Brooklyn Museum.
The misanthropic engineers, the monotonic human-resource drones, the evangelistic marketers, even the nontechnical but talented girlfriend all strike painfully home.
An article attempts to explain William Shawn, the late, lamented, longtime editor of The New Yorker . The painfully shy Shawn once declined an honorary degree from Yale because of his fear of crowds.