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Example sentences for: painfully

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Hefeweizen was expensive on top of being unpopular, so its position at the bottom was hammered home--but not as painfully as that of Bass Ale . Bass had been in the respectable lower middle class of the preference rankings, so its disappointing Val-u-meter showing mainly reflects the fact that it was the only beer not on "sale" and therefore by far the costliest entry in the experiment.
High Crimes is painfully shoddy, even for a book rushed to press.
Pans go to the routine, which lacks the requisite "free-associative lunatic spirit" (Jan Stuart, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales calls Seinfeld "stiff" and the material "painfully familiar."
Characters often take several minutes to enter and exit the stage, moving painfully slowly in one of Japan’s greatest examples of form over function.
But then you chide me that the "painfully obvious answer" to my lament is that these changes won't come "if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment."