He was painfully anxious to see her.
His speech to the new freshmen was painfully didactic.
keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point.
Grandpa Wan grew painfully aware that the family were divided in their attitude.
So he pretended he was lame, and began to hobble painfully.
Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
The girl in the painfully pointy shoes may not care about comfort.
"As for Andy," she says, referring to her painfully shy but acutely observant son, "the future really frightens me."
My grip on the control bar was painfully tight as I ran down the lip of the dune.
He was breathing very rhythmically with long rattling gasps, his great mound of a side painfully rising and falling.
The mother is old and hope drive the disease evil molestation the dying live of mother, the boy painfully sad desire unique, tearful shed tears.
The memories of having lived on my own — in college, in Guatemala, in my own swanky Parisian apartment — clash painfully with my current living situation.
The climb out of the recession looks to be painfully slow, and the federal spending will help offset persistent tightening in state and local budgets.
The paper also underlines some lessons about market liquidity that have been painfully learned outside of academia in the recent market troubles.
Another point that the "Pro-life" lobby try to get across is that they believe no one dies painfully now, because of hospices and modern drugs, so euthanasia is not needed.
Those seated on the elevated stage of an auditorium gave only half as much of the painfully hot stuff to the tasters as those who were seated far below in the sunken orchestra pit.
And right now, our primary global contradiction is painfully obvious: the biggest challenges of governance are global in origin, but all the politics that respond to them are local.
