| 单词 | painfully |
| 例句 | Gradually, painfully, the flames seemed to expire in Tally’s chest, the cough dying a quiet death inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And although Scythe Chomsky had painfully popped his dislocated shoulder back into place at the end of his beating, it still ached with each heartbeat. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The white vapour creeps painfully round before it ventures to steal away over the edge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As they squeezed through, Chess’s face pressed painfully against the stone head of a creature that might have been a demon or just a man caught in the worst agony of his life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But what I have observed is painfully little. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I crawled out from behind the trunk and felt my way across the black room, banging painfully against racks of weapons and corners of trunks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z At first all I hear is the pounding of their feet, and my head snaps back painfully. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Hot weather was most unkind to the dead, that was made painfully clear up at Bush Hill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are moments when the inequalities within the family are painfully obvious. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This thought he held fast and painfully in his mind and he went back to the town and he sent for his eldest son, and he said, “There is something I have to say.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was a trouper’s lute, its long, graceful neck and round bowl were painfully familiar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bill held him close, so that a button on his sweater was pressing painfully into Jesse’s forehead, but as uncomfortable as he was, Jesse didn’t move. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t leave home without it—in case I want to record any part of the evening or, more likely, hide behind my lens if things go from awkward to painfully bad. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The party limped along slowly, painfully, suspiciously, preoccupied by the worries they all shared, but no one spoke aloud. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, painfully, Pollard rose from the chair and limped along the catwalk, pursued by his doctors and nurse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers dug into her arm painfully and for an in-stant Dany felt like a child again, quailing in the face of his rage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After a while Matt switched to reading Tam Lin’s present.The bodyguard was fond of nature books, although he read them at a painfully slow rate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And so far, as he looked at his painfully blank page, he was leaning toward “not at all.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When he looked up at her, hope blooming painfully in his chest, she was smiling at him, soft and sure. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The whites’ outrage became painfully clear moments later in a barrage of kicks and punches and a determination to beat the blacks to a pulp that only subsided when police arrived, brandishing their guns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For a moment I was painfully aware of my appearance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then, roaring with rage, he tried to leap to his feet, only to be wrenched back painfully by his nailed tail. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He knew nothing, he had no ideas, and he was constantly, painfully on the alert for any indication that Hermione too was about to tell him that she had had enough, that she was leaving. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He relaxed, feeling his head bounding painfully down the steps. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z No longer painfully thin, he was eating well. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was painfully conscious of the risk he had taken in coming here. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The tiny legs on one side hung twitching in the air above, the ones on the other side were pushed painfully into the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Theon watched a wounded man drag himself painfully across the ground, smearing his life's blood in the dirt as he struggled to reach the well that stood at the center of the market square. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My throat tightened and my heart swelled painfully in my chest. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I suppose what I really want to say here is painfully obvious, but I must say it nevertheless: The men of that summer were middle-class Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of my periods drag painfully long. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It had been so long since a farrier had trimmed War Chief’s hooves that he hobbled painfully around the yard like a crippled ballerina. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Queenie laughed so hard she slid gracelessly and painfully from one branch to a lower branch, and tore her coat climbing down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The memory flashed painfully in her head: she had left the arrow behind when she fled the burning forest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had lost all the bones from his right arm once and had them painfully regrown in a night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Aunt Rose paused as she mulled over her next words, and Ophie’s heart seized painfully, guiltily. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I will suffocate you in darkness, slowly, painfully. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He painfully pushes himself up to a sitting position and directs his words to Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His split lip was beginning to swell painfully. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “There was only one psychiatrist for them all,” Elizebeth remembered painfully. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The insects had made a meal out of their feet, causing them to swell up painfully. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Francie worked up a fever that night and the site of the injection itched painfully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a high-pitched screech, and it was fast becoming painfully loud. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The other, the one that took the lash from Thread, throbs painfully. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Will hauled himself up painfully, peered through the deep darkness, and made out a blur of white on the ground beside the man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell his height, landed on his ankle, which twisted underneath him, painfully, and he dropped, heavily, onto the rock. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Her eyes flew open at the voice, her heart constricting painfully, her brain telling her it was stupid to hope, so very stupid. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It fluttered painfully, like something in slow motion, taking forever to reach the crossbar. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She had serious bouts of shingles and diverticulitis, and she became painfully thin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The space between us grows painfully small, but it might as well be the Grand Canyon. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Omakayas felt her heart squeeze shut painfully as the birds passed out of sight. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And when others laughed at him loudly he smiled painfully, never knowing at what they laughed, and looking about hastily to see if he had offended someone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Since our first moment here, my parents have been painfully cognizant of the camera in the common room of our Mercury Home that captures every second of our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I pause, painfully reminded of what little family I have coming to see me in the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I sucked in a single deep breath, my lungs pushing painfully against the vise trapping my chest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He got to his feet, stood painfully, his face drowsy and confused, as if a legion of battles had ebbed and advanced there, over many years. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I was still but a prentice in the art, but slowly and painfully I was learning. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she closed her eyes and several things happened at once: Harry’s scar prickled painfully; the Horcrux twitched so that the front of his sweater actually moved; the dark, fetid room dissolved momentarily. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I reached up painfully, and scratched him behind the ears. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When they stopped outside the garden gate she tried to dismount hastily and he had to catch her hand, wrenching her arm back painfully, to prevent her from falling. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The secretary shrugged, smiling painfully; they lapsed into silence for a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is called Stony Beach, because it used to be covered, painfully, by small stones. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was painfully mistaken, for I was treated no differently than everyone else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were painfully difficult to draw; they required precise lengths and angles, or they became something else entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My feet found their strength, and I took off at a full run, Nell bouncing painfully and gripping my shift for her life. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a painfully thin child, small for his age and sickly all his days, and from time to time he trembled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Fastened together in groups of six, the wrists, ankles, and necks of each captive were painfully connected to the person on either side. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "Up there? But—" His hand closed painfully around my upper arm. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He wandered painfully along the river bank, listened to the rippling of the water, listened to the gnawing hunger in his body. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He was painfully aware that Sproul had recently been named to the foundation’s board, though the appointment had not yet been announced. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His nerves were painfully taut as he hung onto the old woman’s words. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At least Shay’s new body wasn’t as painfully skinny; she felt soft and warm in the damp cold of the cave. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But the progress was painfully slow, and after five minutes she’d only gotten up to her elbows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Dukakis, with his painfully methodical, low-key approach, didn’t have a prayer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And nothing between them but the words of another alien, painfully translated from native sounds to foreign. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He wrapped his arms around Grandma’s waist, pressed his head against her stomach, and slowly, drunkenly, painfully started sobbing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I clean it thoroughly, and painfully, with alcohol swabs, careful not to touch anything that might infect me, then redress the wound. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But still, I felt painfully alive, like every cell in my body had a little flame inside it, burning so brightly it hurt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kira,” he said, though it was his mind that spoke, for his human voice was inaudible now and his mouth was painfully swollen with open sores. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The going was painfully slow, but Chickenhound consoled himself on the long journey by boosting his own ego. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He pulls a painfully fake grin, and June looks satisfyingly repulsed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was painfully eager to see not just him but all the Cullens — to compare them with the new suspicions that plagued my mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But she just poked him painfully in the side with the end of the broomstick, laughing at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My stomach clenched at the sight of them, but when I opened and closed my hands I could tell they were just painfully skinned, not seriously injured. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I cried, the words catching painfully in my throat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Gasping, he twitched his head painfully, and immediately uncorked another blast, a gigantic phlegm-spraying detonation that scattered money all over the table, all over Harlan Betchel’s shirt front, and all over the floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z First, you connect your heel to the ground, then roll the ball of your feet on the earth while your toes curl up painfully. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the reading went on her head grew heavier, and twice she jerked herself painfully back from the brink of sleep. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But for a while they could still feel, and indeed the senses of their feet and fingers at first seemed sharpened almost painfully. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You don’t know what this stuff is they feed the kids within these painfully bare institutional walls. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He was shuffling painfully up Trotter’s front steps. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z His head spun; his arm, swathed in white linen, throbbed painfully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She had written that “my feeling of longing after our lost treasure makes me feel painfully indifferent to the other children, but I shall get right in my feelings to them before long.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re still here,” he said with obvious relief, and he hugged me, reminding me painfully of a few bruises. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Alfred tried it, coming up slowly, inch by inch, fighting to keep his legs straight and his heels on the mat as his shoulders began to quiver and the muscles in his stomach tightened painfully. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He lunged, and his stick struck my breastbone painfully. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She toiled painfully up the steps, shapeless, breathing heavily. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ku-Ang landed painfully on the ground, across the lake, bleeding and gasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I’m sort of painfully in love with someone else. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then she climbed out too, very painfully, shivering and teeth chattering, and reached in for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He really has got to stop taking classes so painfully relevant to his life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The old man moved toward the door, and his ancient dog lifted his head and peered about, and then got painfully to his feet to follow. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The sirens grew painfully loud, and the first cop car screeched up right alongside where Kevin was lying. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His laughs came low and painfully like hiccoughs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I thought about the other kids watching me while I ate, and my stomach cramped up painfully like it had the day before. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I grab my things and head home, painfully reminded that tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Deja, who everyone knew was painfully shy, glanced up with the look of a frightened rabbit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It just sucks, and it sucks harder because it was so painfully close to being wonderful. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Now he dragged himself painfully to the curtain at the entrance of the tent, pressed his cheek against the cold ground, and tried to peer out. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Slowly and painfully they clambered down, groping, stumbling, scrambling among rock and briar and dead wood in the blind shadows, down and down until they could go no further. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But Griffith, an unassuming, painfully shy scientist—“this tiny man who...barely spoke above a whisper”—could hardly be expected to broadcast the broader relevance or appeal of his results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In their absence, it was painfully quiet, and the creeping thoughts that had waited in the back of her cell seemed to crawl forth to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the cold hour before dawn, the bull terrier woke, then staggered painfully to his feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was painfully aware of the oath he’d sworn to Lee Scoresby, and he hesitated before he broke it; but break it he did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinching her painfully. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He flushed painfully at this admission that he had been present at the dance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z There, in an arch just above his belly button, is his tattoo, painfully raw. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z These constructs may mock our self-importance, but approaching the world in any other way seems painfully naive. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I felt it poke painfully at my bones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A couple of years earlier, my brother, Craig, had moved temporarily back into the upstairs apartment we’d grown up in, living above our mother after his own marriage had slowly and painfully fallen apart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I got up stiffly, painfully, and went to find something that would make me sleep again quickly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of paleontology than Mary Anning, but in fact there was one who came painfully close. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She glanced over her shoulder at Archer, but before she could say anything, Redbeard leapt out from behind a crate and grabbed her by the collar, dragging her painfully to the center of the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She fell to her knees and reached under the dresser with her hand, the scrollwork of the front bottom edge scraping against her arm painfully. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She sighed, glanced at the vaulting sky, and was painfully aware of her predicament. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not, however, make reading fun, a point made painfully evident by such publications as The Herald Family Tribune and Wassup with the Wexlers! Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z This last remark, while vintage Adams-Rush banter, also exposed the painfully egotistical motives lurking beneath the entire Adams campaign for a more realistic, nonmythologized version of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “See? Alfred T. Slipper becomes a righteous pillar of light so painfully bright that the most heinous villain trembles before him and confesses!” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Olanna wished so much that Kainene had come when they were still in a house, wished she did not feel so painfully self-conscious. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Enraged, but this time outwardly calm, he wrenched painfully onto his feet and stood for a moment, rubbing his can, staring at the pony feasting deliriously on alfalfa ten yards away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The urge to use it to scribble all over Max’s shoes was strong, painfully so, but she just set it down on her desk and looked forward. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I lowered myself painfully onto the round bed, suddenly feeling very tired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie had to concentrate on not scratching the painfully itching area. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "I wish they were here now. A spell would heal my arm less painfully, and they could talk to Shaggy dog and tell him not to bite." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They landed painfully, ten feet away on the cold stone floor, and to add insult to injury, there was a loud popping noise, and both of them sprouted identical long white beards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Swinging his feet to the floor, he sat groggy and unmoving for a moment, lit a cigarette, then pushed his feet into some slippers and padded painfully into the bathroom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was painfully clear that Sister Irma herself had found the color unsatisfactory and had tried her unadvised, noble best to tone it down somehow. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Hagrid reached out a great hand and patted him painfully on the shoulder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was painfully aware how hungry he was; soon Tristran began to think of himself as nothing more than hunger, thinly surrounded by flesh, and, as fast as he could, walking, walking.... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Even in the pale early-morning sunlight, the white alabaster of its front gleamed painfully in her eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He had two huge front teeth, and when he laughed it was as if too many teeth had been painfully crammed into his small mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From the ground, Jak looked up and painfully opened one eye. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When the elevator stopped again, one of her ankles twisted painfully under her weight, but she managed not to fall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He scrabbled for a new handhold, found a rung, and pulled himself painfully away from the rush of rocks beneath. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s like he’s protecting me from being so painfully out of place. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z His small face protruded from over the collar, looking almost painfully excited. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her heart was beating painfully hard and she could not trust herself to speak, even though she knew she had to. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ophie’s heart thumped painfully in her chest, once, and then again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But I wanted rest and sleep, Bilbo, Frodo answered with an effort, when he felt himself shaken, and he came back painfully to wakefulness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mostly your days will just be painfully uneventful.’ We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Everybody was beginning slowly and painfully to disentangle himself from everybody else. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “You will die painfully when you most expect it. There! Much better.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Not every building had a Colored bathroom, a fact that Mary Jackson had discovered so painfully during her rotation on the East Side. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "The boy's going to die quickly and painfully in the first fight he's in. Though some of his enemies might also die...from laughing." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Gregor guessed she might be around his grandma’s age, but his grandma was stooped and moved painfully from arthritis. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her heart thumping painfully with love, she turned away and set her foot on the bridge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I had often been painfully beaten, but almost always I had felt that the beatings were somehow right and sensible, that I was in the wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “And—you weren’t in the town of Endovier. You were in Endovier. The Salt Mines. That explains why you were so painfully thin when I first saw you.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He saw the face of a fish, of a carp, with tremendous painfully opened mouth, a dying fish with dimmed eyes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my teammates gets frantic about a painfully impacted wisdom tooth and keeps making calls from our houses to try to locate a source of free dental care. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it was something else, painfully alert and malicious. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z That there were painfully scattered bits inside me that I could never put back because the places they fit into were gone. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The sound burst painfully from me like blood. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The man was and still is exceedingly—almost painfully—handsome. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The Giver hesitated painfully, as if saying the name aloud might be excruciating. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z A green lushness seemed to bloom from the rock — a jewel-colored splendor softened the sharp edges that had painfully sliced the sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The kick fluttered painfully, just like the last one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, painfully, the remaining members of her crew began to die. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It’s the first time we’ve been in any sort of proximity since the painfully awkward crying moment in his car. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t think they would have more luck than hundreds of policemen, and his shoulder throbbed painfully. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Two hands grab me by my arms, twisting them painfully back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra got painfully to their feet again and clambered on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Why would Joe Mondragon be thinking about you, Daddy?” she asked, giggling when he sneezed again and some more urine squirted painfully out, most of it missing the bowl. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee sits astride his horse, painfully vulnerable to a sniper’s bullet despite his flag of truce. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His hand went under her vest, his fingers digging painfully into her breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z People looking up at her—at her smooth pretty vivacious face—had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I know, it wouldn't melt in his mouth. Jason's still painfully quiet. How's his speech therapy going?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When not one more drop of moisture would form, Cole painfully lifted his head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I felt perfectly awake while everything around me grew almost painfully bright. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen it while they were sitting, but now that they were moving it was painfully obvious they were church strongmen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He just kept his eyes on the road, taking bend after bend at a speed that made Elinor's heart beat painfully fast. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His huge paws dug into my arms and thighs, his claws painfully cutting through my skin. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z That, she made painfully clear to me the day she threw scalding hot coffee at me, screaming that I had brought it to her cold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He felt it when it became painfully difficult to throw a ball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At home, public support for the war was slowly eroding, and Johnson’s fear that American troop morale would slip as the war dragged on was proving painfully correct. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I forgive you for lying,” Lily said, her poodly curls shoved painfully back into a band. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That, or she didn’t want to be painfully reminded that he wasn’t here every time someone said my full name. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately a warm feeling spread through my gut: pleasant at first, then painfully hot, searing, as if the mixture were coming to a boil inside of me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But Shady wasn’t blind and it was painfully obvious that Jinx got nervous anytime Sheriff Dean was within a stone’s throw. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Everyone was painfully aware of the term used to describe the open ground between opposing trenches in the fields of France, Belgium, and Germany and of the deadly struggle for that land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The youngest, the one who had come in from the outhouse, walked, painfully slowly, over to a high and ramshackle chest of drawers, and bent over. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z This final revelation pierced my heart more painfully than the cruelest words Ucho had ever snarled at me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I painfully explained the constraints on resources and time, telling them how frantic we were just trying to get the new office up and running. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In this moment I’m painfully reminded of how big I am for my age. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I discovered that my father’s method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And it seemed to him he led an old outcast, a beggar man, leaning most painfully upon a stick, his poor cloak, all in tatters, looped about him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate building went forward, slowly, painfully slowly, but at least it did go on. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z After he does this a couple times, I realize that he must have some sort of wound on his upper arm that stretches painfully whenever he reaches too far up or down. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The next morning I was determined to find my way out of the forest, even though my back ached painfully from sleeping in the trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z "Mom . . ." Park said painfully, but he didn't move. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The smell of Earl Grey curling up from the kitchens, and his throat going painfully tight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The second hand on Fenoglio's kitchen clock was dividing time into painfully small segments. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Despite the clammy air, his palm was hot and dry, like that of a man with a fever, and his grip was painfully strong. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z And I wish I could say more, but that single word snags painfully in my throat. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Now they squinted at the blurred letters and painfully repeated out loud: What patience Mercy had! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I was fifteen, and painfully aware that I was “just an observer in life.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He cried for his mother in the most painfully piercing voice that I had ever heard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He made a violent effort to raise himself into a sitting position, and merely succeeded in wrenching his body painfully. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The tunnel through the Wall was narrow and twisting, and many of the wildlings were old or ill or wounded, so the going was painfully slow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But until quite recent times—painfully recent times—one thing remained in abundance that preserved the primeval super-Eden feel of the original forest: the massively graceful American chestnut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The Jeep inched forward at a painfully slow rate, made all the more excruciating by the anticipation building in Artemis’s chest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He tried to lift it up the steps but could hardly raise one end and twice he dropped it painfully on his foot. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I stumbled back against the wall and crashed painfully into a rack of weapons. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Amelia grinds the words out painfully, like they’re scratching the inside of her throat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’d never felt so sore in his life, and worse, there was still something throbbing painfully in his side like a knife. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I watch as he painfully makes it to his feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Resa reached for the paper again, and once more it took him a painfully long time to decipher her clear, neat writing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I don't know why, but I laughed, almost painfully, as if it was kicked out of me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z My foot throbs painfully as blood leaves a trail over the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reynie was painfully aware of their eyes upon him—he already felt conspicuous. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z My family surrounds me as slowly, painfully, we continue up the trail. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They have been painfully nice to me ever since, all of them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The high-necked dress she’s wearing clings to her body in ways I find painfully unfair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “We both felt painfully the dangers of doing nothing,” Churchill recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at her from the table where he sat eating the meal that she had painfully prepared. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The hatch door was almost closed now, a five-foot gap at most, moving painfully slowly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I felt my knobby wrists rubbing together painfully, felt my groin ache and the hair on my legs yanked off when Coach Raskin removed the tape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was difficult with the chains on, but she managed to crawl, painfully and slowly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Kermit’s painfully sore arms from the quinine injections, he took over paddling one of the canoes because most of the camaradas were too sick to work. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z There’s something painfully hard in Alex’s throat, but he pushes past it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Long after they had finished drinking an old horse appeared over the brow of the hill and came painfully down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their purpose painfully clear to blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But I had learned to master a great deal of tension now; I had developed, slowly and painfully, a capacity to contain it within myself without betraying it in any way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z While Shasta sat down—painfully and cautiously—with his back against a tree and started on the pasty, Bree had a few more mouthfuls of grass to keep him company. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It felt like my loneliness, new and painfully fresh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z By sixteen I wasn’t just not pretty, I was painfully tall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The goat screamed, feeling its beard tugged painfully, and it jerked back. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Charles’s absence would hit Emma again and again over the years, painfully, but for now she had a family to take care of and a funeral to consider. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to look at Ross Milton, who stood beside him, balanced painfully upon his crutches. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z With difficulty he leaned painfully toward her, so that his ear was near her mouth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Having lost their beasts of burden, animal and human, the conquistadors painfully cobbled together a crude boat and floated their guns and heavy equipment down the Napo River, an upper tributary of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It has become painfully evident that the winning of a State Championship is not a high priority of every member of this team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as we were talking about it, a new Feeling blossomed painfully inside me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The firm elbow of the elderly man beside her landed painfully on her side as he launched his run into the compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I wish, he thought painfully, that I could get another job. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There had always been something inward and painfully shy about Mike, but the death of his father forced him to grow up even faster than he already had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were trembling and his heart was lurching painfully. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z King was painfully aware he could—would—irrevocably destroy his partnership with the president by unequivocally speaking out against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The cop had a bit of pencil clutched in his big paw and he was painfully making small notes in a small notebook. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered how it felt to scrape it out from where it was packed painfully under my nails. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As I watch Violet dial, I’m painfully aware that I haven’t thought of calling my own parents. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He was tall, gaunt, and painfully shy, and he preferred to stay out of the limelight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her heart thudding painfully, she climbed in among the fallen branches, hauling herself through the familiar boughs at their unfamiliar angles, and balanced herself as high up as she could get. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bod, in the sack, was uncomfortable, being painfully slammed against the famous writer Victor Hugo’s back and occasionally banged on the ground. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Her look wasn’t filled with rage, there was strength and sadness, which made it painfully familiar. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “You have no gods with you, and that’s the only way you could hope to triumph. So really, it would be much more sensible to die painfully. Sorry, but the show must go on.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he painfully stood up and winced when he put weight on the bad leg. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I stumbled into a deep depression in the ground and landed painfully on one knee. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He put his hands on his thighs, started painfully to rise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had become painfully obvious that Akhi was no longer able to maintain our same level of training. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Marina’s plane came down near Saratov, painfully close to the familiar airfield at Engels, just out of reach and invisible in the storm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The King of England painfully climbed the two hundred and eight steps which led to Merlyn’s tower room, and knocked on the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z An endless number of painfully dull classes have been rescued by a perfectly timed Cooley pun. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z My voice sounds so painfully gentle that I cringe. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Though on a psychological level his manner was almost painfully intimate, superficially it was businesslike and cold. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When he had his new leg, and painfully knew his condition, he hobbled about for days, looking for the girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The compartment door suddenly opened and someone fell painfully over Harry’s legs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She took a deep breath and then painfully pushed herself into a sitting position. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z From the meadow came a dozen satyrs, who reminded me painfully of Grover. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, painfully, I pulled my arm up between the dead man and the sleeping one beside us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The pellets under the skin of Boxer’s leg smarted painfully. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Time passed painfully slowly, as it always does when you’re waiting for something with your heart thumping hard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But progress on the issue of women’s suffrage on a national scale was moving at a painfully slow pace. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His entire mind and body were painfully concentrated into a single sharp point of attention. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I was painfully aware of the fact that this term would be my last unless I could find a way to make a great deal of money rather quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Can you believe him?” roared Ron as one of the remaining pixies bit him painfully on the ear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Ignatius staggered up the brick path to the house, climbed the steps painfully, and rang the bell. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She could not possibly know how painfully my heart lurched. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They were walking uphill from the dock, some moving slowly and painfully, all of them pale and gray. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Ralph found that he had rock painfully gripped in both hands, found his body arched, the muscles of his neck stiff, his mouth strained open. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her body jounced painfully against his chest with every lurching step. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was painfully dark by the side of the staircase. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z There were so many dress options online, yet the few that fit the definition of modest were painfully dull and matronly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He was painfully aware that he lacked the ecclesiastical aplomb and savoir-faire that enabled so many of his colleagues in other faiths and sects to get ahead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The women and the other girls were shyly, painfully, slowly taking off their clothes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowan stayed in his room, studying there rather than going into the weapons room, which would feel painfully wrong without Citra sitting with him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even if the angler fish had been trying to eat him moments earlier, it was wrong to let something die so slowly and painfully. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I asked her, feeling my heart twisting painfully within my chest. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Encanis’ body arched painfully at the sound then hung limply from his wrists as the ringing of the wheel faded. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Only her own nightgown would do, and the regular bedtime routine; without them, she was painfully lonely for home. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inade-quacy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He grinned so painfully, he looked like he was being electrocuted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Harry raised his wand, but as he did so, his scar seared more painfully, more powerfully than it had done in years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He moved painfully back up the rocks toward the position from which they had charged. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s painfully clear that I don’t fit into the world of my family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a hand gripped her wrist painfully, forcing her to drop the blade. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills—a side effect of spending most of my childhood inside the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The parrot sighs, digs his talons painfully into my shoulders, beats his wings, and lifts me away from the ratlines of the foremast. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When Ilse and Karin are gone and Helena is asleep, I creep out of the bed and go painfully up the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he walks the rest of the distance, some twenty-two miles, trudging “rather painfully.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Luke could tell his father's words came out painfully, but they still stabbed at him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z My heart squeezes so painfully in my chest that it takes my breath away. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Tobias shoves me hard to get to the bus and I go flying onto the ground, landing painfully on my hands and knees. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z "Come on," I mutter, glancing up at a rung that looks painfully close. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His sister's nails dug painfully into his arms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Alfred dragged himself into an alley, and crawled painfully behind a garbage can. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “No — honestly — didn’t I just say how nice Myrtle’s looking?” said Hermione, nudging Harry and Ron painfully in the ribs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z When he was satisfied that the coast was clear he struggled painfully clear of the grisly carcass that had once been his mother. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Had he ever lost his heart to anybody so completely, had he ever loved anybody so much, so blindly, so painfully, so hopelessly and yet so happily? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound was painfully loud, that train huffing closer and closer. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z After a painfully long pause, he says, “I guess that could work. But why do you need to go?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z François called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all his faith in that François would save him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Our cure program’s first major ingredient was the painfully patient work of Muslims who previously were junkies themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, moving through the crowds along 125th Street, I was painfully aware of other men dressed like the boys, and of girls in dark exotic-colored stockings, their costumes surreal variations of downtown styles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to notice it, but the two of them look so painfully out of place here in their harvester uniforms. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Kaede’s arm and shoulder ached, and the bowstring had snapped loudly and painfully against her left forearm enough times that she was sure it would leave a red welt there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They both had thin smiles on their faces and they both looked painfully uncomfortable, as if they were embarking on a strange and potentially explosive experiment for which there were no predicted results. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gawaine,” he asked painfully, “don’t follow me. I will accept the banishment. I will live in my Preach castles. But don’t follow me, Gawaine. Don’t keep the war forever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron said weakly, though he was clinging painfully to Harry to stay upright. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s got a white stone exterior with pillars and brass accents, and it’s so painfully classy, I almost feel underdressed. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Here and there we passed Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Although I struck my head rather painfully against the cart, I cried pleasantly from the floor, “You win, sir.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The pleasure is mine,” I say, painfully aware that I haven’t shaved in two days, my clothes are stiff with manure, and that manure is not the only unpleasant scent rising from my body. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She ran faster, the hard rectangular object beating painfully against the base of her spine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Taran climbed painfully to his feet and shook his head to clear it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She stumbled and fell onto her back, where her weight stretched the cuffs painfully across her wrists. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sound of her crying was painfully familiar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When GlobalPost visited the homes of parents with missing children for an earlier report, it was painfully clear that the economic status of the families plays a disturbing role in the treatment of their cases. Indian child trafficking on the rise 2013-05-05T12:00:00Z As a child, first in Sacramento and then Los Angeles, she was painfully shy, afraid of eye contact and wary of social interaction. Brie Larson Finds a Hectic Life After ‘Room’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z But the way the series addresses the issues around race–like most other topics it deals with–can be painfully hamhanded. TV Weekend: AMC?s Hell on Wheels Gives ?Em, At Best, Heck 2011-11-04T14:34:56Z My first impression upon others is that I’m standoffish, when I’m really painfully shy. Carolyn Hax: Reconciling the squared-away professional with his unironed self beneath 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Our production actually did quite well, but I went to see some very fine work which had painfully small audiences and truly deserved more recognition. ArtsBeat Blog: Was It Worth It? Theater Makers Who Showed Their Stuff in Edinburgh Add It Up 2011-08-17T21:00:29Z His despair derives from the fact that nearly every female has sexual relevance to him, yet he remains, painfully, a virgin. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Clinch saves his most original touch for the very end, where Marley finds a kind of ecstatic resolution, laying the ground for the final painfully hard-won redemption in “A Christmas Carol.” Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z When Austin of “Austin and Ally” develops a crush on another singer and it painfully pratfalls into a date, that singer is a girl. Motherlode Blog: Waiting for Disney’s First Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Teenager 2014-02-27T18:08:42Z Hindsight makes the injustice painfully clear, but at the time, few white writers or political figures were willing to defend the teenagers without equivocation or apology. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He's also painfully aware that the world has changed, that one doesn't know who the bad guys are anymore. Olen Steinhauer's new novel reunites spies with a shared history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He also promised that "not everything in the show is crunchingly, painfully serious – there are things which are fun as well". Bronze exhibition at Royal Academy shows its mettle 2012-06-25T16:12:22Z I am sure I have made my attraction as painfully obvious as possible. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z On the stage in front of us, it is painfully clumsy. A nobody's guide to the Oscars 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z Ms. Falco, who won this category back in 2010 in her show’s second season, was painfully honest and funny throughout its seven-season run. Mike Hale on the Emmy Awards 2015: Predictions, Wishes and What-Ifs 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The issues this drama raises — painfully timely ones, I hardly need add — surface organically from the circumstances. Review: Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ Examines Lives Unraveling by Industry’s Demise 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Grimes was a man of painfully few words, making it easy to misinterpret his silence as a consequence of age. Henry Grimes and Giuseppi Logan, Lost and Found Jazz Stars, Are Both Gone 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z But being sidelined by forces beyond his control is painfully familiar to him. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Paraphrasing painfully, Mr. Kurlansky writes that “in his song ‘Rock & Roll Music,’ Chuck Berry explains why he does not like modern jazz — because it ends up sounding like a symphony.” Books of The Times: ‘Ready for a Brand New Beat’ Looks at a Martha Reeves Oldie 2013-07-04T22:52:12Z And unlike Harry Potter, Quentin doesn’t learn that he’s inherently special and destined for greatness: He learns, slowly and painfully, that he’s not. Why does the Magicians trilogy keep raping and killing off its best characters? 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z And then she included a poem, which, depending on your perspective, will be either painfully twee or gently comforting: Yoga With Adriene: how the YouTube star won lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Visually competent but verbally clogged, this painfully earnest movie wants us to care about the corrupt behavior of medical-equipment purchasing cartels. | 'Puncture': ?Pucture? Stars Chris Evans and Mark Kassen ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z Instead, it’s a masterful reminder that America and Islam are, as ideas and as histories, deeply, painfully interlinked. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z As the battle between these cartoon villains and Nate goes to court, the writing becomes painfully platitudinous, skating around the real controversies surrounding the domestication of intelligent primates. ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z On day one Cummings had her wrist painfully grabbed by an unseen force, a somewhat easy enough thing to laugh off. "Conjuring Kesha" is the perfect mix of humor and terror 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z I felt painfully let down by the whole process. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z “Instead, it was about this painfully raw woman asking for approval.” Lisa Kudrow Returns in ‘The Comeback’ on HBO 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Fielder’s ideas are always radical, but often terrible, and at best painfully convoluted, often completely misunderstanding the core values and market of the business. Nathan For You: finding the comedy in awkward commercialism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Think of his second major role, as the painfully shy Todd in “Dead Poets Society,” who comes out of his shell only to lose his roommate and his inspiring teacher. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Invisibility is what he achieved, and what this film — by staring so empathetically at squalor and loneliness — so painfully shows. ‘The Unicorn’ Review: A Gay Country Singer’s Grim and Lonely World 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Conor, the oldest and most painfully dumb child, tries to run for president on a platform cobbled together from the comments section at a site like Infowars. "Succession," Trump, and the end of the American myth of meritocracy 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z And his Amazon series Six Crises is so painfully bad that it is virtually unwatchable not only thanks to the wretched writing but his excruciatingly terrible performance. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Clearly, painfully, they’re getting stuck because so many of them are choosing to stop. Lean in? Here’s why the glass ceiling still exists 2013-09-15T10:59:00Z But in the end it was painfully moving, her last moments spent curled up between us as we sat on the ground, her chin resting in my lap. Best friends: why is the love we have for our dogs so special? 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z But the most popular section — with the audience at least — was a screening of a YouTube video in which a painfully conservative white woman demonstrates how to dance hip-hop. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham?s ?Live! The Realest MC? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-12-12T23:34:52Z He was among the first of some three dozen designers scheduled to show on the emotionally charged anniversary of an event that still resonates painfully in the world of style. The 9/11 Anniversary Gets Fashion Week Off to a Somber Start 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z While farce can cut and bruise actors, I suspect it can also touch audiences more painfully than its stereotype of silly entertainment suggests. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z The “It” in the movie’s title sparked widespread debate, but interpretation is almost beside the point—the terror here results directly from “it’s” painfully unresolved ambiguity. 11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “Even though it may be painfully awkward to sit for that hour and 40 minutes and watch some rough stuff with your kid, it offers an opportunity now that you have this shared experience.” Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z At the climax, belief and disbelief are painfully tested. Black Death 2010-06-13T14:20:00Z While Faulkner’s story veers off into the traditional grotesquerie of Southern Gothic literature, Fowler’s culminates with injustices that are painfully easy to imagine because they continue to be a part of our contemporary lived experience. Review | ‘A Good Neighborhood’ delves into the thorny territory of race, class and prejudice 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The designer’s traditional finale bow was not coming and never would again and as fireworks lit up the Miami skyline, the audience seemed painfully aware of his absence. Louis Vuitton show pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z I was painfully aware of how little I knew about my grandfather, Frederick C. Dixon. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z His views on the peace talks that ended the war are also painfully frank. ‘The Bosnia List:’ revisiting the war that tore Yugoslavia apart 2014-03-05T20:45:47Z Even one of the most surprising and original series to come along in a while can still be painfully obvious. The Man in the High Castle: the Nazis win, but so do viewers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z To make its intentions even more painfully explicit, the first guest was Miranda Hart, who joined Fern in the living room for what turned out to be a prolonged, all-encompassing, middle-class lovely-off. Fern: chatting for Britton 2011-03-29T09:53:44Z Nowhere is this more painfully clear than in the character of Mary Musgrove, Anne's younger, married sister. "Persuasion": It was the best of characters, it was the worst of characters 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z As for what to do, Taibbi called for prosecuting white-collar crimes and reassessing how painfully we police the poor. Festival of Books: Matt Taibbi, Steve Lopez on socio-economic clout 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Good news for you either way, if painfully achieved. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sorry, but you can’t turn a bad match into a good marriage 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Her face contorts painfully into a smile, followed by a hollow, choked guffaw that would deceive no one — well, except a man. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The patterns in the sunlight suddenly struck me as the most painfully beautiful things I had ever seen. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It's a story of recovery, but not a miraculous one: that step forward for Ayckbourn showed painfully clearly how the boundaries of his progress were circumscribed. Max Stafford-Clark: by hook or by crook 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z And, of course, the stakes are painfully high; getting the balance right is never easy, and getting it wrong can lead to tragedy. Theater Review: Rebecca Gilman’s ‘Luna Gale’ Opens at Goodman Theater 2014-02-10T20:50:56Z But this hourlong journey takes us rather painfully through breakups and make-ups, peeling layers off the main characters in ways more characteristic of their proclivity for shedding clothes. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Seeking Safe Harbor 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z He is next to appear in “Death of a Ladies’ Man,” a film inspired by the Leonard Cohen album of the same name, in which he plays an aging professor painfully reckoning with his past. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z What history books often render abstract, puppets and miniature objects made painfully vivid in this ingenious live-animation film created by Dutch theater company Hotel Modern and composer Arthur Sauer. The best theater of 2015 highlights transformation and enduring power from L.A. to Broadway 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z In that version, Fisher’s mother was brash, bossy and sometimes breathtakingly inappropriate in her attempts to steal the spotlight from her far more painfully self-aware daughter. Debbie Reynolds was a trouper all the way to the end 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z He was committed to discovering and combining anti-aging agents, both natural and manufactured, and he devised instruments to more accurately and less painfully deliver subcutaneous fillers. Dr. Brandt, the Lonely Showman 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s something the actress is painfully familiar with: She has been candid about her struggle with anxiety and depression, and she drew from her own experience in “I Am Victoria.” In ‘Vigil,’ Suranne Jones Sounds the Murky Depths, as Always 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It frees them up to have different kinds of conversations that make clear how painfully limited the prevailing ones are. Female Artists Delete Rape’s ‘Heroic’ Underpinnings 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Last September, after I got fired from what was painfully close to being my dream job, I was gripped by aimlessness, malaise, and more than a little self-loathing. What Unemployed People Do With Their Time 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Now, as we're all painfully aware these days, the first rule of advertising your online business is that your commercials must be memorable. The Hard Sell - webuyanycar.com 2010-04-23T23:15:00Z By the end, Ms. Bathgate was practically sawing at a string while twisting the cello’s peg and painfully contorting its pitch, the classical equivalent of smashing a guitar against the stage. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z And we probably never will, considering how painfully awkward her audition tape is. Watch Amy Schumer Audition for "The Real Housewives" 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z More hauntingly, it winds up resembling our own workplaces, with the deceitful caprice, the unanswered queries, the disregard for process, the phony notions of teamwork — it’s all painfully familiar. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Their painfully expository conversations reveal the weakness of Yang’s script. ‘Tigertail’ Review: A Taiwanese Man’s American Dream 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z He stays afloat by scouring the Internet for details of Mohle’s life and by knocking sense into pointy-headed and painfully self-absorbed students. Crime fiction: Pretentious writers get their comeuppance 2014-02-05T23:37:04Z And in its best moments, the work gives you what Bernstein described on TV: the ability to make you feel the emotions he had when he was writing an at times painfully personal opera. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z As nondescript as her depressingly middling apartment — where we will remain for the duration of the film — Laura is painfully lonely. | 'Leap Year': Bridging Loneliness in Mexico City 2011-06-23T23:17:28Z That call, made from the emergency room, marked the beginning of a painfully secret relationship forged by Ms. Koppuzha and Mr. Sotomayor, 18-year-old fellow Floridians and freshman classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A Secret Relationship, Until Mom and Dad Needed to Know 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The opera is by its nature painfully intimate. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s only one in a series of painfully blatant dramatic reversals that wouldn’t be out of place in any of the comic-book movies that are so readily contrasted with “authentic” cinema. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z From the outset, it is painfully clear that he stumbled into the wrong neighborhood. Movie Review: ‘God’s Pocket’ Is John Slattery’s Directorial Debut 2014-05-08T23:52:09Z This powerful moment, which I missed the first time, immediately reminded me of Emily in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” who returns painfully to a day in her life. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But that book, a self-idealized account pegged by Entertainment Weekly as “strangely prim,” fell painfully short of Mr. Ritz’s usual benchmark for emotional candor. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Outside the barn, Ellie is a far less compelling character, painfully forgiving of Clive’s aggressive treatment. Review | ‘Ellie and the Harpmaker’ plucks the heartstrings 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z As a result, the theme of ethnic prejudice is now folded into other issues, including painfully topical ones like the tensions between law enforcement and minorities. Reimagining ‘West Side Story’ With Voices From Across New York 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Fame has come as a shock to Hoover, who is almost painfully introverted, and dislikes being in the spotlight. How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z What is it with British men and their painfully ill-fated attempts to fake their own deaths? Winter TV: 24 Shows to Keep an Eye On 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z While Mr. Garfield said he marveled at the screened montages of the night’s honorary award winners, he was painfully aware of the constant inflation and deflation of egos, including his own. Andrew Garfield, Spiritual Ghost in the Hollywood Machine 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z As much as I admire Katie’s ability to feel whole outside the context of a romantic relationship, it poses a painfully stark contrast to who I was at her age. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z Not a large part, but she plays a painfully vulnerable role with enormous dignity and honesty. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z "It's the most democratic art form, but it's painfully difficult to be good at it." The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial success 2010-09-19T21:00:00Z Similarly, the care that went into approximating the tangible visual details is evident, although it's also painfully obvious the budget couldn't meet production's full ambitions. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z It felt, instead, like a sad, strange, painfully real and incredibly bizarre world we’d all helped build and now were all watching teeter. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z More painfully, the channel looks about to lose Mad Men, to Sky. Richard Klein on why BBC4 is the corporation's best-loved channel 2010-10-11T06:00:00Z Awkward phrasing, painfully contrived rhymes and unnecessary repetition constantly kill the mood. Seattle Opera’s uneven ‘Flight,’ cleverly filmed at the Museum of Flight, takes off 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The history of cinema fuelled by fan fervour is generally an inglorious one, as anyone who has ever taken the time to view Snakes on a Plane or Iron Sky will be painfully aware. Deadpool trailer is rude, crude and dangerously entertaining 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The local crew, painfully familiar with the actual tragedy, began to keep their distance from Jones, particularly after the guns arrived on set. Caleb Landry Jones Can Do This 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Every producer of painfully symbolic interstitial videos is taking a step back and wondering if they’ve done enough. Eurovision Song Contest 2015 – live blog 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z “The theater was dingy beyond description, the band reduced to a drummer and a pianist and the midweek audience painfully spare,” The Los Angeles Times wrote of that 1966 performance. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Shakespeare concluded that though "awfully long, solipsistic and of necessity self-serving, is also funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-09-28T21:55:08Z But Pierce has rarely been a leading man and he’s aware of that, sometimes painfully. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z In , Christians are painfully aware of their minority status and, as a result, they are low-key, if not subterranean, at least when compared to other religious groups. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z The band sounds exceptionally tight, with guitar lines and intense riffing shearing through the mixes with white-hot clarity, and Jones providing the purest and most painfully honest of vocal deliveries. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z But what comes next is the most painfully realistic of all. Yes, "Yellowjackets," the wild show about cannibalism, gives us a realistic breastfeeding story 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z It's prone to plunging to depths of almost avant-garde atonality, most painfully on Don't Stop, which should be renamed Please Stop on this showing. The Stone Roses – review 2013-06-09T18:44:52Z The opening panorama – a painfully slow tracking shot of peasants trudging towards Lear’s castle – is one of the great set pieces of Shakespearean cinema. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The first section painfully reconstructs the immediate aftermath of the accident, including excruciating hours at their daughter’s hospital bedside, surrounded by friends and family, after Greta was declared clinically dead. Review | After his 2-year-old daughter died, a father turned his pain into a beautiful memoir 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z They are secretly alive, which means that just like real humans experiencing real development, they are hurtling toward death, painfully picking up lessons in maturity along the way. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Samuels promised the guests would be "unusually emotional and painfully candid". Men's Hour kicks off with Louis Spence's digestion woes 2010-07-18T22:46:00Z It was never released here but it's both the most frustrating and the most intriguing of the mumblecore movies; at times painfully boring but at others bracingly intense and unbearably intimate. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z The initial proposal for The Post’s new slogan was “In the dark, democracy trips over the sleeping cat of tyranny and bangs its shin painfully on the bedpost of complacency.” Style Invitational Week 1272: The hex files — think up creative curses 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z For generations, many Black people had viewed their naturally kinky hair as a liability, and either trimmed it close to the scalp or straightened it, often using painfully caustic chemicals to do so. Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z But that was long ago, made painfully clear by this weakened remix. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “It hurt so painfully when the show did not get picked up,” Mr. Ridley said. Before ‘Empire,’ a Foundation Laid by ‘Platinum’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Critic Tony Parsons said: "One of the best things I have ever read about the nature of mad, obsessive love... funny, sad and horribly, painfully true." David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z What the book most painfully lacks and what the live session so brilliantly conveyed is what Mr. Nierenberg calls the driving force of the Music Paradigm in the first place, “the power of music.” Roger Nierenberg and the Music Paradigm Program 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, as a toddler and preschooler, Camille was painfully quiet and reserved. Perspective | My daughter’s hidden disability 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z An essay on her childhood habit of collecting nests twines with her youthful skepticism of domesticity, how nests render birds — exhilarating in their freedom — suddenly so painfully vulnerable. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The film tries so hard to be slick, but its efforts are both unoriginal and painfully amateurish. ‘Die in a Gunfight’ Review: Another Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The introduction of the new stars, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, was labored, long and almost painfully lighthearted, like a divorced husband awkwardly presenting the new wife to his grown but unforgiving children. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Life After Simon for 'Idol' 2011-01-20T12:26:17Z Grastorf is a worthy straight woman, her bearings painfully stiff and face twisted into an expression of constant bafflement. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Movie shorts "Successful Alcoholics" is painfully funny Besides taking a punch or getting stitches by an old-timey doctor in the West, there are not many situations in life where it helps to be incredibly wasted. "Successful Alcoholics" is painfully funny 2011-05-17T21:18:00Z Of course, it isn’t exactly irony, because it’s certainly not a joke — but it neatly conveys a painfully exaggerated anxiety about social cues and gender roles. ‘Queenie’ Shows the Force of Latin Women in Art 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z In a second episode, Claire and Mitchell copy Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train and "murder" each other's respective partners by being painfully honest to them. Tonight's TV highlights: Giant Squid: Inside Nature's Giants Special 2010-10-13T23:05:00Z That sense of the treacherous familiarity of blood ties is played to the hilt but never painfully embodied here. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The redemption the story ultimately offers is equally unlikely and gorgeous, painfully limited but gratefully received in a world thrown into chaos. Review | A med student gets a crash course in battle wounds and PTSD in ‘The Winter Soldier’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She owns her look, but even more, she acknowledges the rocky, aggravating, painfully public road to finding it. Clinton fashion: The styles, they were a-changin’ 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z But empathy, as anyone who has suffered through a painfully well-intentioned parable about racial understanding will tell you, is rarely enough. White filmmakers, black characters and the fear of cultural appropriation 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Or, to be accurate, a blood-red carpet on the floor of Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, which is the painfully long official name of the collection that determines the direction of the brand. Calvin Klein’s Style Sharknado 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Also, painfully, some of them lacked information about how their relatives were faring. Shortages of everything, and worries about relatives, for... 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The filmed sequence is deceptively simple yet painfully unnerving, seeming to suggest metaphorical dramas of inner and outer worlds of vision and darkness. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z Stanhope is painfully oversensitive to these everyday economies with the truth, and at his best he challenges us to be the same. Doug Stanhope ? review 2011-04-04T20:45:00Z We are painfully short of emblematic and iconic civic monuments for film-makers to destroy. Battle of Los Angeles: San Andreas just the latest film to kick the crap out of LA 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z He could be painfully distracting — disruptive — because you’re here, let’s get this scene, let’s find out what works, what doesn’t. John Stamos on Bob Saget and the Many Stages of Their Friendship 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z I do think there’s something painfully astute in this approach: parents want their kids to be okay. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z This theme would have had its own appeal to Schubert, painfully aware as he was of the precarious social position of the independent composer. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z And what a story it turned out to be: a narrative with neither resolution nor end that leaves even the most fundamental question – who killed Halbach? – painfully unclear. Guilty pleasure: how Making a Murderer tapped into our weakness for true crime 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z It focuses the attention and soothes the mind even as its tale of amped-up competitiveness detours into memories of a painfully broken marriage and the depths of immobilizing depression. Review: Endorphins Fuel an Awakening in ‘Endure’ 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Though the details of actress Misty Upham’s death are still unknown, one thing should be painfully clear, yet again, from the latest Hollywood tragedy. The sad end of a young Hollywood star 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As the son of Spartacus star Kirk Douglas, Michael wrote, he was painfully aware of the weight of familial fame. Five years in jail for Michael Douglas's son for selling drugs 2010-04-20T17:09:00Z He seemed painfully shy and hardly asked a single question. Charles Busch on the First Time He Performed in Drag 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z He’s painfully aware of how problematic it is for him to be serving as the public voice of these women, their scribe and interpreter. Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The human dimension is painfully cliché, and Oie’s clunky orchestration of intersecting individual stories flattens the film’s overall momentum. ‘The Tunnel’ Review: Fire in the Hole 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The people “over there” are not, as we have come painfully to know, a homogeneous lot, and their troubles are not just matters of faith, but of survival. Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ a Crisis of Feeling for Young Evangelicals 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Le Guin's description of the cold, hunger and frustrations of Genly and Estraven's painfully slow march across the ice provokes shivers, and the book could easily stand up as a good, old-fashioned adventure. Back to the Hugos: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin 2010-03-25T11:33:00Z The children grew painfully thin, and had scabies and ringworm; eventually someone reported the family to the authorities and Christina remembers the day a Black Maria came to fetch them. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z She is the painfully shy child turned 80s poster girl; the Hollywood star who found a fresh lease of life as an environmental campaigner. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z As a New York society woman who loved singing publicly despite being painfully tone-deaf, Streep was effusively dotty, characteristically empathetic, and a bit mannered. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The gender gap in professional chess was – and is – painfully wide. Check her out: how Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit thrills with fashion 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Far from being the solitaries of popular mythology, their associations with one another, sometimes ecstatically happy, sometimes painfully fraught, were vitally important, to their daily lives and to their work. Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Eric was privy to Catherine’s secret and knows how painfully bereaved she will be. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z She ranks, in short, among the most painfully and obviously vulnerable celebrities working – or not working as the case may be – today. Kerry and Me 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z But the writings here reflect the Mr. Carter we know: boastful and painfully confessional, sanctimonious and callous, insightful and un-self-aware. Books of The Times: From Seat of Power, Battling Many Crises 2010-09-26T22:18:00Z The show is very, very funny — painfully so, at times. Lauren Weedman is back in Seattle with her latest painfully funny solo show 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Losing Mother may push the plot beyond that, painfully maturing these childish characters into some version of adult responsibility. The joy of Jessica Walter's final "Archer" missions before our favorite terrible mother abandons us 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Both deliver thoughtful, painfully realistic performances, to be sure. The gripping immigration story of "Stateless" risks being blanked out by star power 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In her third memoir, Emily Rapp Black writes of tentatively, painfully regaining her footing after losing her son to Tay-Sachs disease. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Novelists today are painfully supportive and there's hardly a vendetta between us, just a little occasional flaming on Twitter. Edinburgh festival turns back clock 50 years to literary debates of 1962 2012-08-10T15:45:44Z Talking to these ex-drug users, I was painfully aware of both the parallels and vast differences in our initiation into the junk world. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z Around the gray stairs is a wash of brilliant, almost painfully saturated color, dominated by a blanket of yellow autumn leaves. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The set design borrows from “Cabaret” to feature mirrors, making the audience complicit in a work that painfully rips off the polite Band-Aids we use to talk about race, revealing the legacy of chattel slavery. Meet the playwright behind a ‘deeply raw space’ on Broadway 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z What seems painfully obvious to his family is that Seth Rich was, instead, the victim of a botched holdup, one of a series of armed robberies in the neighborhood around that time. Seth Rich wasn’t just another D.C. murder victim. He was a meme in the weirdest presidential election of our times. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Typical of immigrant families, there’s a cultural disconnect between generations, and this is painfully evident in our conflicting attitudes toward the mental health profession. Modern Love: Modern Love - Providing Comfort When a Cure Is Out of Reach 2012-12-13T18:08:15Z Her best embodies a painfully sensitive awareness of physical vulnerability. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-08T23:05:26Z Sadly, the heart wants what it wants — and often keeps wanting it, even after it should be painfully clear that the wanted one doesn’t want us back. Social Q?s: Affairs of the Heart - Social Q?s 2011-09-23T17:47:47Z In Dear American, a song written by the South Korean rock band N.EX.T, he sang about "slowly and painfully" killing US soldiers and their families. Psy apologises for anti-American tirade 2012-12-08T07:04:00Z “There’s no incentive to get stuck on what could go well, because evolutionarily, that kept us safe. But in times like this, when there’s so much threat to pick up, it bombards us quite painfully.” Conspiracy theories: Why some people are susceptible and how to protect yourself 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z But then she and Jack share a painfully honest, awkward, drunken night which leads to an even weirder morning when Iris shows up unannounced. Review: Naturalism key to `Your Sister's Sister' 2012-06-12T00:46:06Z When Dern was 18, Lynch cast her in his twisted suburban nightmare, “Blue Velvet,” as the almost painfully innocent Sandy, who dreams of robins in a world gone to hell. Laura Dern is at the peak of her powers 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z While it's easy to laugh at Anthony Weiner's tawdry come-ons -- and believe me, I'm nowhere near exhausted on that front -- there is also something painfully vulnerable in them as well. Weiner's poignantly hilarious Facebook messages 2011-06-07T16:01:00Z That is, until a painfully exhausting day when I helped my sister and her husband move into a new apartment. I thought I hated beer until I tried porters 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Co-ruminating conversations are often painfully circular: we go around and around as we wonder, speculate and emote about our problems. How Parents Make Things Worse For Struggling College Kids 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z When these slowcore pioneers released their debut album, “I Could Live in Hope,” in 1994, they kept it simple: bass, drums, guitar and vocals distilled to evoke painfully gorgeous landscapes trapped in snow globes. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z I was 10 when my breasts first appeared, and I was already painfully conscious of my weight. Was my breast reduction a mistake? 2014-02-17T01:00:00Z Like everything else in the play, the jargon of uplift is quickly dismantled by Mr. Norris’s unrelenting and often painfully hilarious cynicism. Review: In Scathing ‘Downstate,’ Sympathy for the Devils 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z “Commonwealth” spans over 50 years, and the stories of how these children move uncertainly into adulthood — and how their parents adjust to the misfortunes that accrue — are painfully beautiful. In Ann Patchett’s ‘Commonwealth,’ Knotting and Unknotting the Ties That Bind 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s just that Richter’s works push this fact beyond the pale, leaving no middle ground and making what’s at stake painfully clear. Sexual fireworks in Daniel Richter's 'Wild Thing' at Regen Projects 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z As David Edelstein wrote in New York magazine, this "painfully earnest plea on behalf of persecuted children should be seen by kids above all." 'Bully' filmmaker makes a documentary that touches a nerve 2012-04-05T23:37:04Z Her highs are too high and his lows are painfully low. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He combined an industry with an ease and fluency that was not only incredibly rare, but almost painfully irksome to any other writer in his orbit. Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z The following morning, he will address the conference itself, a glorious opportunity for Borisovian grandstanding and an event that the prime minister will feel painfully obliged to attend. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z Teddy eventually backs down and apologizes, but the scene painfully reflects his struggle to accept his son's deafness, which sets the tone for their embattled relationship throughout the series. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Much like the way Ramsey reacted in the “young love” scenes of Episode 7, her take on trauma here feels painfully true. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1 Finale: A Deadly Operation 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z “I’ve become painfully accustomed to just how fleeting signage is. It’s made me wonder whether I should become some sort of advocate for preservation, in attempt to postpone their inevitable disappearance.” Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z She was interviewed for a Harper’s Bazaar profile, with a now painfully ironic headline: “The Truth About My Mom & Dad.” Cate Edwards: A steadfast daughter to John Edwards, despite pain and scandal David depicts Tyler and the revelations that slowly, painfully emerge throughout both books with extraordinary shades-of-grey subtlety – and a wry humour to leaven the depressing subject matter. YA fiction's knife crime lessons 2011-02-11T11:33:45Z Despite the film’s flaccid gestures toward the sexism of the period — to boost sales, the women’s pictures are added to their bylines — “Boston Strangler” is a dreary, painfully stylized slog. ‘Boston Strangler’ Review: Chasing a Killer (and a Byline) 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It expresses, in calm, painfully beautiful tones, Tolstoy’s epiphany for his noble, awkward Pierre: a moment of grace, hard won and treasured, at seeing a comet streaking across the sky. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Another when he apparently killed a cat, “slowly and painfully.” Good Looks Ran in the Family. So Did Schizophrenia. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Oh man, the only thing I love more than fashion is horrific, painfully stupid puns! Oscar dresses reviewed by a man who knows nothing about fashion 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z All are deeply damaged individuals, Holocaust survivors painfully aware of their own families' tragedies in Nazi Germany. Nazi thriller "The Debt" set in wrong period 2010-09-07T01:47:00Z We invited him to a family reunion a few years back and it was painfully awkward; he overstayed his welcome, talking about himself and seemingly unaware of how uncomfortable he was making our mother. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z I’m going to spend the rest of the day painfully aware of other people’s sniffs now. The secret language of sniffs – from ‘I have bad news’ to ‘This toilet is occupied’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Over and above the furious—and ultimately painfully tender—drama, Perry achieves something of a new, grand version of his own cinematic music. Highlights from the 2018 New York Film Festival 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The segments about you growing up in Texas with an abusive stepfather seem painfully real. Brent Spiner, of ‘Star Trek’ fame, has plenty of stories about his co-stars. But are they true? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In 1982 nobody had seen anything like the Skeksis, or the wise, painfully slow counterparts the Mystics, or any serious film completely inhabited by beings shaped from man-made materials and animated by puppeteers. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance": A seductive fantasy very relevant to our reality 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Mark Volpe, the former president and chief executive of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, said that while “progress has been painfully slow,” orchestras were likely to appoint more women over the next several years. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z But he’s an individualist who constantly questions himself, painfully aware of the emotional and moral limitations of going it alone. DVDs: On DVD, Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh War Movies 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z As Thomas’s memory painfully unfurls into his consciousness, it becomes clear that he harbors a terrible secret and is not entirely the victim he at first seemed to be. Theater: Cillian Murphy in ?Misterman? at St. Ann?s Warehouse 2011-11-27T05:30:08Z The story in “Vengeance” is superficially straightforward and painfully familiar. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The result is a painfully beautiful protest album from first track to last. "What’s Going On" at 50 — Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Stephenson depicts the artist at the crossroads of his career, in his mid-40s, with a solid reputation as a magazine illustrator, yet painfully aware of his unrealised potential. A Northern Odyssey 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z Those challenges that Amy and her co-workers face are hilarious onscreen and yet painfully real for a large segment of Americans. America Ferrera on Why People Should See Themselves on TV 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “The Biggest Loser,” which premiered on NBC in 2004 and lasted 18 seasons — through thousands of tearfully and painfully shed excess pounds — returned in January to USA. Perspective | All those reality shows you loved about people’s weight, marriage and kids? They’re back — and nicer. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He’s painfully aware of his failings as a husband, father, cop–”I’ve never been Columbo”–but he doesn’t know any other way than to steer into the skid. Review: More Angst, Less Poetry in a Lesser True Detective 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The last book I put down without finishing was Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” but only because it was painfully vivid. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z "The Sessions" - Given that it's based on the true story of a man with polio who spends most of his time in an iron lung, this is not as painfully heavy-handed as it might sound. Capsule reviews of `Alex Cross,' other new films 2012-10-17T21:31:06Z There is some great work by the performers, their characters often seem painfully real, although nearly every bit of subtlety is countered by a plot contrivance or scene that's too on the nose. Your Sister's Sister – review 2012-06-28T21:26:01Z The moment is both painfully awkward and brutally funny, and Abraham sells it for all it’s worth, gusto and wonder in his voice. F. Murray Abraham Would Make ‘The White Lotus’ All Over Again 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z A future that begins in the dark, with surgeons as gardeners; and the hardness, the discomfort of welcoming a new life that bristles and stirs painfully inside. Rowan Williams releases poem promoting organ donation 2013-07-11T14:36:39Z Even as so-called reality TV perpetuated the myth of the last frontier, it had become painfully evident that Alaska was a colony of Big Oil. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z With his main character dead, what remains for Roth is to decipher him from the vantage point of his own painfully acquired maturity. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z From his own experience, he was already painfully aware of the economic pressures towards short cuts and shoddiness, the negation of the basic human instinct to perfect one's skills. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z The level of dancing remained skillful throughout a long evening — one made longer by three painfully long intermissions — but the result seemed cooler, more restrained and formal than in past L.A. Los Angeles Ballet dips its toes into a cold, calm 'Swan Lake' 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Most painfully, her best friend has dropped her to join a clique of ruthless popular girls whom Cindy refers to as “predators.” Get a Job, Kid 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Their unchecked excitement — the raw wanting — makes the characters painfully nervous; and the combination of emotions bumping up against one another makes for comedy. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z Mr. Lee’s most radical move in “Chi-Raq,” which he wrote with Kevin Willmott, is to transport a classical Greek play to a Chicago that is highly fictional and painfully real, geographically specific and unmistakably metaphoric. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Horror movies have been doing that forever: Wait for the end credits of Ti West’s new film “Pearl” and you’ll see Mia Goth hold a maniacal grin for a painfully long time. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Consider the title of his website, a painfully veracious observation on contemporary texting behavior: “sayingsomethingsincerelyandendingitwith.lol.” FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z For each of these men, self-awareness sometimes makes them painfully cognizant of their limitations. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z "The whole wig and painfully putting each hair in. It was crazy. It was bizarre." Jennifer Lopez has a pretty big booty -- for a small Guatemalan man 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And once he hits on the concept for a movie called “Zombie Wars,” he’s determined to carry his corny, apocalyptic treatment to its painfully derivative last line. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The whole scene lasts a painfully long three and a half minutes and ends with a lame joke about Bob helping her pack the drum kit into her van. The weirdest musical TV cameos: from Bob Dylan to the Purple One 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z We offer these lists humbly, painfully aware of the many fine books we couldn’t squeeze in. 2014: A good year for book lovers At the "Mansplain," it was painfully clear he'd never been confronted about his words and behaviors before, and had no experience being called on to justify or explain himself. On “FBoy Island,” the feminist “Mansplain” puts an end to “bros before hoes” 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z It was a breakthrough for Kylee, who is autistic and was painfully shy even around family members, to take that step. David the Goliath gets what he wants 2011-03-22T21:55:00Z Over the past year, in which he sought and failed to achieve a "grand bargain" with Republicans on the federal budget, Obama learned painfully just how little ground remains in the political center. Obama delivers confrontational address 2012-01-25T03:23:00Z She was, for example, painfully reluctant to direct herself. Natalie Portman on Israel, Hollywood sexism and ‘being the boss’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z But am I the only one who sensed trouble when the painfully methodical spacing and timing of the opening titles suggested the heaviest, most medicinal tragedy of this or any other year? 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z But the pace of this whodunit in search of the enemy within is painfully slow at times, as buried memories are recovered and it moves to its surprise twist of an ending. Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Actually, it's crueler than that: there are times that the girls take chances by being painfully vulnerable and open, only to be crushed or told in so many words, some terrible, that they're undesirable. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s an unsettling trio of Elfmans, with one painfully emerging from the head of another. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Near the end of 2016, a lengthy relationship Paul was in was painfully changing, right as the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock were unfolding. Black Belt Eagle Scout pushes for representation with intrinsically Northwest indie rock 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z From then on, the “downfall,” both Hitler’s and Germany’s, became painfully clear. Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z And Mr. Wittrock is painfully affecting as he registers the denial, defiance and raw fear of a feral creature caught in a trap. Theater Review: ‘Sweet Bird of Youth,’ Revived by Goodman Theater 2012-09-25T02:00:18Z I was once a public high school student myself, and writhed painfully beneath the long, glossy talons of many a Regina. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The diaries are painfully repetitive, yearning for a path between shame and wholeness. Rock Lives: This Season’s Pop Music Biographies and Memoirs 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But the first few episodes of “Ray Donovan” are disappointing — grandiose, predictable and painfully slow. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z His performance as Rasputia, an abusive spouse who is obese, was criticized for its mockery of a fat person, though the portrayal emphasized, painfully, the character’s cruelty and indifference. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Dombo reaches painfully into his bedside table to retrieve the phone number of someone he hopes might know where they are. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z “The Grim Sleeper,” Christine Pelisek’s painfully relevant new book about the notorious South Central serial killer of perhaps 25 or more women, comes at a time when true crime has been made great again. 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Today Frelinghuysen says he feels not only betrayed, and guilty about losing his aunt's work, but also painfully naive. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z I was painfully aware of the glaring hypocrisy in my life. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z I’m one of the few actors who actually had opportunities — I’m painfully aware of that, and I have a bit of survivor’s guilt. Ariana DeBose on Hosting the Tonys: ‘Whatever We Do Is Going to Be Fun’ 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And my previous belief in a relationship of equals seemed painfully naïve. How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “But I love you in a different way,” Vanessa writes, painfully aware of the horrors Mina faces. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Light shed on Vanessa's dark past 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z He watched cancer slowly and painfully claim his mother, then he found his father’s week-old corpse. Snooping in a dead man's house: my uneasy inheritance 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Reaching, she tugs hard at a rock, then her foot slips and she falls, sliding painfully down to the beach. Kate Winslet: ‘I’ve been asked so many times about the intimate scenes’ 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Even as the book reaches its inevitable conclusion, Elisabeth talks to herself in painfully upbeat language, using phrases like whoops-a-daisy! as she approaches her own death. In These Novels, Women With Cancer Decide to Ditch the People-Pleasing 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As they were over 18 at the time, none of the women complained of being molested by Jimmy Savile, but they none the less had to put up with some painfully antediluvian male attitudes. Rewind TV: Homeland; Wonderland: I Was Once a Beauty Queen – review 2012-10-13T23:06:22Z But in this revival, you could home in even closer to just its two sisters, antipodal soprano roles sung by Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen with floodlight luminosity and painfully human sensitivity. Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z I watched these while reading her aptly titled debut collection, frustrated to see the author cast as a mannequin to be used by these painfully less interesting men. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Read this witty, wildly inventive work and how conservative, how painfully corseted so much modern fiction will suddenly seem. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z What is painfully clear is that fear and denial are the emotional modus operandi of both parents. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The series might be horrifyingly funny and ring painfully true if it it didn't constantly beg us to see Hank as a witty, lovable libertine who means well. "Californication's" atrocious masculine fantasy 2011-01-10T16:30:00Z But it is also painfully clear, in our current climate, that anyone once identified with Levine dare not presume him innocent until proven guilty. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, there is a painfully talky scene where Sarah stalls to buy time, and Orson engages in fisticuffs with one of Mike's ex-special forces that feels like a fight scene rehearsal. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z In previous years, when South African jazz was both exhilaratingly and painfully coming of age, most of the world still thought of jazz as an American art form. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z Thinkpiece: “Why must immigrants painfully subsume their identity to appease their hosts?” Thomas the Tank Engine goes multicultural: how the world will react 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z If only that were the case with “The Cake,” by Bekah Brunstetter, which remains painfully topical two years since its premiere and even longer since the events it is based on. Review: ‘The Cake’ Is Well-Baked but Not Quite Filling 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z At one particularly painful and painfully funny moment, Liberace's skin has been stretched so much that he can't close his eyes and only his snoring proves that he's asleep. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-08T23:07:01Z Twenty years later, he’s edging us closer to something resembling an accurate reflection of the real world but the progress is painfully slow. Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The mannequins displaying them are mostly dispersed throughout the home — including in the dining room — which makes the cultural arrogation at play painfully, if edifyingly, clear. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Creepy, twee Chaplin, with that creepy, twee walk, every joke so painfully contrived even a 10-year-old could see every punchline waddling over the horizon? Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z But as anyone who has taken a career leap knows, such moves can feel painfully real. In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Watching poor, poor Juice beg for a way back into the club is painfully relatable, like watching a friend slog through a relationship you know will only end poorly. 'Sons of Anarchy: Playing With Monsters' recap: It's a black day 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It has an unflinching naturalism and authenticity which makes this ambling, unfocused quest for an elusive good time into painfully compulsive viewing. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z To get nostalgically, painfully drunk in a pub where you can't even smoke? James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' 2013-04-26T16:08:01Z I was awkward, painfully skinny and partially mute. Dylan McDermott: The First Time I Waited On a Celebrity’s Table 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z "There's an uncomfortable quality to a lot of them that's painfully funny." Kristen Wiig: The Anti-Comedian 2011-05-02T14:10:00Z David Bradley, previously brilliant in The Caretaker and No Man's Land, plays the lead in a rare revival of Pinter's 1993 play about a dying, irascible ex-civil servant painfully estranged from his two sons. The best theatre for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:08Z The rest of the cast, including a painfully snappish Elisabeth Moss, are ill-used and, apparently, terribly angry. 2009-12-18T01:18:00Z The hero of the novel is Elwood Curtis, a painfully earnest African American teenager. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z I applaud her graciousness and thank her for making me painfully snicker at myself. Rant & Rave: An awkward trailing vine at the nursery 2011-08-19T18:28:08Z The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders, perhaps the state's most harrowing murder case yet, is painfully reexamined almost 45 years later in Hulu's newest four-part documentary "Keeper of the Ashes." The 5 most shocking moments from “Keeper of the Ashes,” Hulu’s Oklahoma Girl Scouts murders doc 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Directed by Tony Krantz, the film is a low point for Mr. Banderas, who is painfully miscast as a tough guy and whose Spanish accent has never been more of an impediment. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z Somehow "Mad Men" captures this ultra-mediated, postmodern moment, underscoring the disconnect between the American dream and reality by distilling our deep-seated frustrations as a nation into painfully palpable vignettes. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z Despite obviously being painfully thin-skinned, this quixotic performer takes the detritus of his personal life and transforms it into audacious, self-lacerating art in which he never remotely spares his own feelings. John Grant – review 2013-03-14T17:49:13Z The women wearing this rather voluminous combination were perched on top of unnaturally tiny and painfully bound feet. History of a Dress, Chinese Style 2010-08-30T12:10:00Z Iyer’s teenagers are recognizable, painfully so: They worry about modern plagues like school shootings, natural disasters and the rot of late capitalism. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The thing is, I was painfully aware of this consequence the day they both drove away from their home! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: New grandparents, new guilt trip 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Hindsight makes it painfully clear: Our relationship was wrong from the start. My boyfriend, the sex addict 2013-06-10T00:00:00Z While Marlantes was painfully translating his tour of duty into fiction throughout the 70s and 80s, supporting himself by working as an energy consultant, the US was coming to terms, creatively, with its national nightmare. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z He returned to the subject at the end of his life, producing a painfully awful picture — an acutely detailed, this time sunny panorama of inert, airless little color patches. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes, going from whiteface to passing is painfully visible. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z If there's any evidence that the writers are taking this character beyond her painfully obvious narcissism, I'm not seeing it. "In Treatment" recap: Sunil's suicidal threat 2010-11-16T13:30:00Z Even at quarter-capacity, a cacophony of chatter, sloppy renditions of “Happy Birthday” and clinking glasses echo painfully off the high concrete walls and metal ceiling. Boîte: Die Koelner Bierhalle in Park Slope 2012-08-22T17:34:21Z As a child, I was one to stop, stoop and peer, painfully nearsighted — a condition that went undiagnosed for a long time, because my mother was horrified that I would have to wear glasses. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z I am painfully aware that life is full of riches but few guarantees. How can I serve the world? 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z However, as time went on, it became painfully apparent, after I repeated the same line a half dozen times, that something was terribly wrong. Stacy Keach Had a Heart Attack Onstage. Now, the Show Goes On. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z His sense of celebrity and its power contrast painfully with his torments; the movie, however, gives little sense of that ease and solely shows a Fischer under the influence. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Smith spends considerable space documenting Eliot’s early years, however, when she painfully lacked it. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “I was a painfully awkward kid,” he said. Samuel D. Hunter Climbs the Ladder With ‘The Whale’ 2012-10-21T03:00:19Z First, because the questions it raises remain painfully topical. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Twenty-seven years after Don't Stand Me Down was released to widespread bafflement that took years to turn into acclaim, Dexys return with an album every bit as confounding, theatrical, strange and painfully honest. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z Their pillow talk is painfully funny but also plausible. Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig's Merry Band of Party Poopers 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z She looked painfully ill-at-ease playing Russell Brand’s love interest in that idiotic Arthur remake. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It was instead hilarious and sad and painfully accurate, a sharp reality check in a tabloid perfect true crime tale. Charles Ramsey, hero and viral superstar 2013-05-07T16:49:00Z The focus this year is ostensibly on more serious fare, although that doesn’t mean that the limits of auteur worship aren’t sometimes painfully obvious. Perspective | Cannes at 70: Striving to keep pace with change while staying true to its auteurist roots 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z I don’t need to feel either disturbed by or painfully grateful for seeing women my age rendered in full-blooming imperfection. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z They are a metaphor for a garden bouncing back from major surgery, and for a spring in Washington that has been painfully slow to get going. The vaunted garden at Dumbarton Oaks reopens after some major surgery 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z What begins as a tentative tenderness between Franny and the almost painfully shy James becomes tiresome in its preciousness. The neo-folk-tinged 'Song One' is tiresome in its preciousness 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Gut Punch No. 2 lands in the form of Jimmy, who visits and attempts a heartbreakingly sincere, painfully honest rapprochement. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Finale Recap: Adios 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z I’d always been socially awkward and painfully introverted and the challenge of fitting in was terrifying. I can’t bear to watch my mom detox 2014-04-13T20:00:00Z Macdzl in Georgia maintained that “Straight Outta Compton” is not a good film, writing, “The story is sloppily written and at many times painfully corny, and the acting is generally sub-sub-par.” Readers Respond: Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The other is schools theatre, an art form that was overlooked and underrated long before The League of Gentlemen subjected it to a character assassination in the form of the painfully right-on troupe Legz Akimbo. Schools theatre: the case for the defence 2010-06-16T15:26:00Z Often, well-intentioned people let animals linger too long, painfully long. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Confessions of a compassionate hit man 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Alas, the stories are dreadfully sincere and painfully literal. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z This year’s edition is especially, sometimes painfully, current, as many exhibitors have brought work by Japanese artists. Art in Review: AIPAD Photography Show New York 2011-03-17T23:28:34Z And like many a comic-book superhero and antihero before him, Tracker grapples painfully with his own identity, even as he fights off a succession of opponents who threaten to thwart his mission. A Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z I mean it was the first real book, and also the first book I ever read, in the sense that I had a private vision of what I was reading about—unexpected, incommunicable, painfully exciting. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Amelia Gentleman's articles 'bring us almost painfully close to subjects that are too often ignored', judges said. Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman wins Orwell prize 2012-05-24T10:22:40Z A story that you half-expect to turn into a melodrama stays true to the sensibilities of its immature, painfully sincere characters, who are faced with life-changing decisions. Review: ‘The Young Kieslowski’ Is a Sobering Comedy of Consequences 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This, it is gradually transpiring, is a very characteristic Nighy interview quote, in that it is dolorous, painfully self-deprecating and makes rather heavy weather of the business of acting. Bill Nighy: ‘I’m not in any trouble, everybody can relax’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The perils of being young and sensitive in those days are painfully caught in David Mitchell's novel Black Swan Green. Waiting for Clegg and co: a funding tragedy in two acts 2010-07-16T14:40:00Z Outside, a painfully cool clique smoked American Spirit cigarettes and exchanged jokes about Serbian soldiers, injecting some dark humor about the war that ripped apart this small country. In Kosovo, a Thirst for Progress, and Beer, Too 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Enough with the exploitative picture books and increasingly dubious biographies that have driven the Monroe industry since her death, at the painfully young age of 36, in 1962. DVD: Marilyn Monroe, Lushly Rendered 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z The answers are not clear, and the country's two best-known classical musicians, pianist Gabriela Montero and Dudamel, once friends, are, as is much of the country, painfully divided on what to do. Gustavo Dudamel, Gabriela Montero sound 2 different notes on Venezuela 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z One of the bodies was painfully small. I lowered my camera to take this in, but someone tugged my arm. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z But for many Black women worldwide, the headlines and social media discussions were painfully familiar. Invalidations of Meghan’s claims of racism hurt Black women 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “Tristan” — which is known for musical chromaticism and for a painfully stretched-out sense of longing — is also notorious for exhausting its musicians to the point of collapse and, in some cases, death. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” as a volume, drills down into and through what is tolerable until it hits a powerful vein of the painfully mortal and lasting. Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Just as film-makers must edit their sunsets, novelists must use setting, research and description judiciously – in fact, painfully sparingly, while paradoxically conjuring up a sense of place. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z But tucked inside these carefully told, almost anecdotal narratives are intense emotions, intractable social problems and human truths that are too deep, too sad and perhaps too painfully absurd to name. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z It’s so painfully unfunny we’re not sure it can legally be called a comedy. "Holmes & Watson" Review: No, sh-t Sherlock 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z A physical rendering of an existential crisis, one that's painfully dreamlike and wistfully surreal. `Anna Karenina' inspires 5 super-stylized films 2012-11-15T22:38:12Z "I was always very to myself as a kid and painfully shy," she says, avoiding eye contact as if to reiterate her point. Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz 2013-04-05T13:00:00Z The acoustics of the room, which painfully sharpen high frequencies, did not help. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z When I came back to my white church with new ideas, new friends, and more questions, the response was painfully clear. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “The Prince of Homburg,” directed by Jonathan Munby, is perhaps the more exasperating because it comes so painfully close to getting it right. London Theater Journal: The Serious Season 2010-08-02T16:20:00Z One night, my son cried for almost an hour as I attempted every position and latching technique to help relieve the over-supply of milk from my painfully engorged breasts. I grew callaloo to spite my mom: How cooking a Jamaican dish healed old wounds, plus how to make it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z By Andrea Sachs | Soon airplane seats will take their rightful place alongside other items that we painfully squeezed our bodies into and then ditched, such as corsets and skinny jeans — a relic of travel past. Perspective | Down on 2023? We get it. But here are some things that might improve. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z But I also remember thinking that this man was very uncomfortable in his own skin, and painfully shy. The day I offered Andy Warhol a job 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Amusing, entertaining and, yes, “educational,” as well as ominous, Ms. Steyerl’s film is a substantial, painfully timely achievement. Hito Steyerl: ‘How Not to Be Seen’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z After surviving a near fatal wound doctored painfully by Jenny, I was practically catatonic, feral, banished to living alone in a cave for years. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 8: The Secret Revealed 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z And while she said she missed her family and friends "painfully", she said she found California "incredibly magical and beautiful." Marling faces Shakespeare 'fear' 2013-04-24T09:43:45Z “Heroes” was all about surprise and the big moment — the twists and reveals that kept you interested, despite the show’s mundane writing, helter-skelter plotting, uneven performances and painfully cosmic narration. Review: ‘Heroes Reborn’ Finds Its Superhumans Again Fighting to Save the World and Themselves 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z While much of the narrative in “The Promise” unfolds in earlier decades, its themes — the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, and questions about who belongs — are still painfully resonant in his country, he said. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Too much of Cooper’s film becomes painfully earnest. “A Star Is Born,” fails to thrive: Bradley Cooper’s vanity project is more corny than compe... 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Just watching it made me squirm, and I remarked to the people I was standing with that he seemed painfully persistent in the face of some pretty clear body language. The Jian Ghomeshi effect: I plan to speak up now 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z That’s love bottled up in a single metaphor: sacred, toxic and dangerously addictive but gloriously, painfully endurable. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z There is more than one way to break the art fair mold, and the suave and sometimes painfully hip Independent is an example. Armory Fair Week: Your Survival Guide 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Thus far, my career highlights include interviewing bar scene jam bands and penning a painfully dull article about some instrumental Christian prog band running around town. The weirdest album to ever go platinum 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z But they speak, too—repeatedly, painfully—of her deep, often manic feelings for both O’Connor and Murdoch. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It doesn't help matters that the movie itself is so painfully mediocre. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z And the series's ongoing inherent weaknesses were painfully revealed. Downton Abbey: plot moving slowly? It must be time for someone to die 2012-12-26T12:22:58Z The father is painfully aware of what he’s doing to his daughter and privately weeps with guilt. ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Viola Davis’s portrayal of Veronica’s lonely grief, whether screaming in her chilly white apartment or waking up in shock to find the bed empty, has been painfully raw. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z And the novel’s passages on AIDS, the dark underside of that brightly lit decade, can be painfully beautiful. ‘The Fall of Princes’ review: the rise and fall of a Master of the Universe 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “The Fabelmans” is a disarmingly, at times painfully intimate movie about a family closely modeled on the Spielbergs. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z That sounds lovely and cozy, and possibly painfully on the nose for couples who have been Netflix and chilling their way through this pandemic. The tragedy of Steve on "And Just Like That" is that he's a lot like the rest of us 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z We were the kids who were never asked to dance — that part of the book is painfully true. Firoozeh Dumas sees the humor amid middle-school stress 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z A year later, the Times critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote, of a concert with the National Orchestra of Belgium at Carnegie Hall, that his Mahler “was almost painfully literal.” His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Two impenetrable, outrageously expensive, painfully long sequels that only succeeded in diminishing the appeal of the original. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z When Jess reacts painfully to the fluorescent lighting “vibration” that a classmate doesn’t even notice, she seriously asks him, “What’s wrong with you?” Review: ‘Uncommon Sense’ Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z For his 36th novel, Keneally has chosen a subject that is by now painfully familiar to both Roman Catholics and the wider public. A Fictional Priest Uncovers a Long History of Clerical Child Abuse 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It is easy to judge these men, but they are painfully introverted and shy – even childlike in the way they look to Cassell for answers. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Once you recognize its imagery of death, wounds, loss and memory, its complex exuberance explodes painfully inside you. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z "We hope that all woke you up," they say as they leave, many hungover heads clanging painfully in agreement. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z Now “Miles for Mary,” which opened on Saturday night at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, asserts its claim to belong among such painfully pleasurable company. Review: ‘Miles for Mary,’ a Sendup of the Interminable Meeting From Hell 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Some statements were painfully blunt, like “Divorce is unfair” and “Become aware of who supports you and who doesn’t” and one I found particularly jarring: “Don’t underestimate how much you’re hurting on the inside.” A Program That Aims to Lead to Post-Divorce Peace 2012-12-15T00:39:25Z “And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z This reflects the casting evolution of the character, a painfully shy plant geek. Conrad Ricamora on His Bumpy Road to ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Organic to the era of news-media consumption that it chronicles, “The Fourth Estate,” Showtime’s just completed, four-part series about the New York Times’ coverage of the Trump Presidency, is a painfully agitating document. How “The Fourth Estate” Attempts to Capture the Still-In-Progress Story of America’s Debasement Under Trump 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It can seem intimidatingly dense, philosophical and painfully slow when you first read it, but just take your time and let it wash over you. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z In the documentary, the idea was to try and demonstrate it, sometimes very painfully, very uncomfortably, the lengths that I went to to try and accomplish that. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z A painfully narrow road winds precariously over a promontory to the quiet cove where the restaurant is. The Pour: El Bulli and a Meal for the Ages 2010-09-22T04:20:00Z Hair usually begins to grow back after about six weeks, but the process is painfully slow. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Because so much goes painfully unspoken between characters, Kosiso is heartbreakingly unaware of how much her nephew relates to what she shares. A Debut Novel of Political and Personal Upheaval in Late-20th-Century Nigeria 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It painfully dramatizes how antisemitism can lead Jews to overlook other injustices, protect your tribe and harden your heart to the plight of others. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Plus, it’s way better than pushing doubts aside and marrying anyway — since that eventually unravels anyway, only later and more painfully. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He said ‘I don’t’ to her but is now saying ‘I do’ to someone else 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Clumsy and kitschy as “Winter’s Tale” often is, there’s no denying that it feels like a profoundly and perhaps painfully personal film, in a way Hollywood movies almost never do. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z To a painfully patchwork of brassy pop, roiling crackles and vintage French cafe music, Karlin and Bryant’s choreography veered from poetic flights of fancy to ill-conceived comedy sketches. Moves After Dark dancers turn the Grand Park fountain (and more) into a splashy stage 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z So why has pop culture, on the whole, got it so painfully wrong when it comes to depictions of surfing and surf culture? Why can't pop culture get surfing right? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Read Machado, and much contemporary fiction can suddenly appear painfully corseted and conservative. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Regret over his lack of engagement with Chiquita, who died of breast cancer in 1992, is a running theme, culminating in a painfully honest, surprisingly moving assessment of their 33-year marriage. Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z And whatever progress toward diversity we are making, the percentage of minorities playing lead roles is still painfully low. Aziz Ansari on Acting, Race and Hollywood 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z "My weight had become such an issue that something as simple as putting on a seatbelt was a nightmare as the clip would painfully dig into my leg," she said. Woman’s wedding photos inspire 84-pound weight loss 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z That, painfully enough, is the sentiment throughout “Fail State,” and those interviewed display a particular kind of bravery for outing themselves as people so eager for education that they let down their guard. ‘Fail State’ Review: Schools That Don’t Make the Grade 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Sandy is painfully awkward in as many ways as possible—physically, verbally, emotionally. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z That’s the terribly pleasant and almost painfully articulate world of “Damsels in Distress,” the loopy new romantic comedy of manners and other things by Whit Stillman. Scene City: ?Damsels in Distress? Screening and After-Party 2012-04-04T19:28:22Z Segal wittily describes the eagle-eyed sharpness of a community where nothing goes unnoticed, and Adam's passage to maturity is painfully documented, but the novel inevitably lacks the gravity and restraint of Wharton's masterpiece. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z That was painfully clear on more than one occasion during his show at the sold-out 9:30 Club on Saturday, a sashaying performance that veered from tedious to schmaltzy to clever. With humor, but not much melody, Father John Misty comes to 9:30 Club 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Once the crowds leave, every one of its 147-year-old flaws becomes painfully obvious. The Preakness has a storied past, but this woman wants to move it into the future 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Situations that ideally would be fairly adjudicated by judge, jury, mediator or family therapist instead remain painfully unresolved. Perspective | Movies have become their own form of justice, even when they don’t make it to the screen 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z And through her we live these characters struggling and striving, and watch ambitions realized and painfully thwarted in ways that boldly expand on the stories established in the first season. Smart Watch: "Killing Eve," still slaying in season 2 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The songs felt painfully prescient or woefully ironic. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Assailants in Halloween masks shot five people during a live music set, and in brief interludes the carnage is described from the perspective of the victims, whose last impressions the reader painfully shares. From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z But in the second half, it becomes painfully clear that this is a family drama. Review: ‘Il Trionfo’ and ‘Pelléas’ at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Last season, which included an invasion of the White House by African paramilitary forces, was almost painfully cartoonish. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z From his reactions to these unconnected and otherwise meaningless events we sense that our hero is both painfully young and also a shattered veteran of the first World War. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z It’s a painfully raw moment for just how much it seems unextraordinary — just another day in the life of someone who aspires to be the biggest pop star in the world again. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Those who oppose him are always ill-willed, unreasonable, “oddly stubborn” or burdened by “painfully cloudy theology.” Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Face to face with her, he is painfully awkward. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The marginal disappointment here is Wolfgang Windgassen's Siegfried, who occasionally sounds under par, especially in the first act of Götterdämmerung, where his singing is painfully flat. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Its title, the “Big Five-OH!,” has much in common with aspects of the group’s choreography, which can veer into the painfully cute. Review: Delayed by the Pandemic, Pilobolus Celebrates Its 50th 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But his movies — “Wet Hot American Summer,” “My Name Is Doris,” “The Big Sick” — have also often blended surreal with painfully real. Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Hulu’s “High Fidelity” is for people who love to watch a square peg get painfully hammered into a round hole. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z I was a painfully shy kid, so I was a rather fierce reader. Gillian Flynn: By the Book 2014-05-08T16:21:40Z These are admirable novels, artfully composed and painfully honest. Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan It’s painfully obvious that Neumann not only loves his children, but is also a present, involved and nurturing father. Art or Porn: When Does Posting Nude Photos of a Toddler Cross the Line? 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Instead, Wayne latches on to the school's star player, an arrogant bully who has a trial for Chelsea – though it becomes painfully apparent that he is not going to be the next Cyril Regis either. There's Only One Wayne Matthews 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z There are times when these invisible worlds suddenly become painfully conspicuous. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez planted a community garden plot. It’s good for the earth — and her. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z But as portrayed by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s beautiful black and white film, he less terrible than just painfully naive to his lack of talent. Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z He uses crutches to get around with a painfully injured leg. Good acting can’t save ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z I’d shoot painfully past Hans Memling, one of my favorites, past Bosch and past Bruegel’s stout harvesters, eternally eating their lunchtime porridge. Frame: Caravaggio, ‘Denial of St. Peter,’ Met Museum of Art 2012-06-07T17:09:11Z But this wonky political horror movie turns out to be painfully earnest and gauche to the point of confusion. ‘Red Pill’ Review: The Horror of a Weekend of Racism and Extremism 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It is essential that hard topics are written about for teens and young adults because otherwise we are avoiding them, pretending that cancer and depression and illnesses are not real when they so painfully are. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - review 2013-04-20T08:00:00Z It is deeply intelligent, intensely and painfully political, and yet attempts, and succeeds, somehow to transcend politics and perhaps even history itself. Nostalgia for the Light – review 2012-07-12T20:30:01Z But this notion that isolation from society is the truest way for artists to “suck out all the marrow of life,” as Thoreau somewhat grossly put it, seems painfully anachronistic. Perspective | Artists are struggling to find inspiration in isolation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The city is painfully gorgeous, its residents famously festive and its offerings ever more culturally sophisticated. Frugal Traveler Blog: For a Brazilian Vacation, 7 Rules to Save By 2012-09-11T20:13:18Z “I’m painfully aware that the work we do together is way above what we can do individually.” New Tears for Fears songs ‘plumb the depths of our souls’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z And Nichols, making his directing debut in an adaptation of Edward Albee's painfully honest play, gets up close and personal for the carnage. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z “He said, ‘I want everybody to be painfully honest.’ A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Given how thin female actors now have to be just to look “slim”, your heart breaks at the thought of how much weight she must have lost to look so painfully ill. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Travel insurance works in a deliberate — often painfully deliberate — way. Two days in sick bay cost me $5,929. Why won’t my travel insurance pay? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Ani is a woman deeply, painfully aware of how dangerous it is to be female in the world, and that knowledge has almost entirely shaped her. “True Detective” recap: A shocking shooting, a horror ending, and “We get the world we deserve” 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Attack on Memory is painfully overlooked. #gdngig What live music have you seen recently? Live music: been to any good gigs recently? 2012-11-12T16:03:45Z “I was so painfully shy that I became mute at one point,” she said. Sky Ferreira: A Rebel, When Time Permits 2014-04-16T21:23:18Z The ridiculously fast speeds, painfully sharp turns, stomach-flipping drops and lack of control kept me far away from the metal beasts for most of my life. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z He can recall his life up to the murder, but thereafter he can't remember anything for more than a few minutes at best, though he's painfully aware of his condition. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z The opera features some painfully revealing confrontations, like the daughter's delusional aria in Act II, in which she praises her starved body because it is thin. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Sloppy, overcooked and painfully unfunny, it feels like exactly what it was: a filmed deal. Don’t Forget That Joel Schumacher Briefly Saved Batman 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It takes place in Alabama 20 years earlier, in 1880, when the Civil War was still a painfully fresh memory. | 'Another Part of the Forest': A Lillian Hellman Villain Before ?The Little Foxes? 2010-06-26T00:10:00Z Berg, who was born in 1885 and died, painfully prematurely, in 1935, left a relatively small oeuvre of mature pieces, including the two greatest operas of the 20th century, “Wozzeck” and “Lulu.” Music Review: Tribute to Composer Alban Berg at Bard Music Festival 2010-08-16T21:54:00Z At one point he raps: "Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully." Correction: People-PSY-Protests story 2012-12-08T19:16:05Z That Ms. Feiffer’s characters do not is what makes them so painfully irresistible. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit’ Blends Rage With Gallows Humor 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But in recent months, their idea of covid common sense has grown painfully out of tune with the view that it’s time to throw caution to the wind and masks in the garbage. For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But she noted that political and economic empowerment for Salvador’s majority black population is moving at a painfully slow pace. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Burn's autobiography deals with important events and famous people, but at its heart, it is the author's own personality – intelligent, modest, painfully honest, drily witty, courageous, highly principled and unfailingly urbane – that shines through. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z It’s an overwritten but at times wrenchingly moving play, probably destined to remain a cult item because, among other things, it requires the kind of deeply felt, painfully exposed acting that is not easily achieved. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z What is most remarkable about this film is how thoroughly — how painfully, how honestly, how beautifully — it answers that question. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A painted outline of the dinghy on the gallery floor underscores how painfully cramped it would have been. For This Show, the Artist Went Overboard 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Unfortunately it wasn't the reputation boost he was looking for: A young, cocky Haim meanders painfully through his interview, interspersed with cringe-inducing shots of him lounging in his pool and jamming on the synthesizer. Video roundup: Corey Haim's charmed, tortured life 2010-03-10T15:11:00Z Reading it the second time round, its shortcomings were painfully obvious. Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z Rob is affable and painfully self-deprecating and was immediately taken with Ursula, who showed up to the restaurant in wedges and a wrap dress from Urban Outfitters. His first reaction to his blind date: ‘I did not feel worthy’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Having spent time in a school – not a residential one, but still oppressive – that tried to "take the Indian out of the Indian," Robertson's mother was painfully aware of the threat of racism. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Gilgi becomes painfully aware of how much she owes to the circumstances in which she was raised. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z That might sound painfully earnest, but the Greeks understood that our profoundest pleasures aren’t superficial. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The world as Maeve has understood it is gone — and, more painfully still, she learns that neither she nor it was ever authentic. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z For her, the effacement of giving oneself over to ghosts is painfully mirrored in reality. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It was painfully clear that, as well as Meili, there had been child victims here: teenagers who were thrown in prison because they were the wrong colour and wrong social class. I rejected fairytales as a kid. Who needs them, when there are real wolves nearby? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Instead, seemingly innocent comments sting as painfully as insults, and are funnier for their terseness. Review: Innocuous Remarks Double as Cutting Commentary in ‘Abigail’s Party’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Silver said he’s painfully aware that many people would love to see him fall on his face. Nate Silver blew it when he missed Trump. Now he really needs to get it right. 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z It injects a gratuitous note of melodrama into a movie whose undercurrents of humor keep it from becoming painfully somber. Movie Review: ‘My Brothers,’ Directed by Paul Fraser 2012-11-30T00:49:55Z He found the going tough: later he would describe tutorials with DL Chapman as "painfully obscure" and with HJ George as "lifeless". Frank Greenaway obituary 2013-07-16T16:48:05Z Despite breaking up some years before the events of the show they remain close and painfully sensitive around one another. In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z They are painfully out of place in this trendy Parisian cafe, hunched and grimacing, talking in northern accents so thick they could be in a Victoria Wood sketch. News From Nowhere puts Darkstar on the map 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z I hope Ms. Nyong’o’s starlight draws audiences to this detailed and painfully moving exploration of the brutality and dehumanization that seem to be endemic to African conflicts. Review: In ‘Eclipsed,’ Female Captives in Liberia’s Civil War Seek Sustenance 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z In these scenes, there is stillness, a walk in the forest — that long, painfully sought moment of self-forgetfulness. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Hidden among them is 1982's Fast Times, one of the most authentic and painfully funny accounts of those difficult teenage years. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-22T23:07:08Z Malala herself seems painfully aware of the lack of easy solutions, writing in I am Malala: “Once again, I prayed for a magic wand to make the Taliban disappear.” Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Both approaches prove painfully unsatisfying to the lonely characters in Samuel D. Hunter’s play “A Bright New Boise,” the 2011 Obie Award winner being revived at Chance Theater. 'Bright New Boise' at Chance Theater: Secrets and scandal in the break room of Hobby Lobby 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Low added: “This bill saw unanimous, bipartisan support throughout the process because it’s painfully clear that we can and should do better.” Spears case spotlights state efforts to rein in conservators 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Braniff : I agree that while terrorism is a painfully human phenomenon that has analogous moments in the history of political violence, the tragic events of 9/11 were unique. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z The next night, I walked slowly and painfully along the corridor to visit our little girl in the nursery. Family life: A snapshot resemblance, loving neighbours and pork fillet 2013-06-08T06:15:01Z In the journalist Joshua Prager’s ardently reported and painfully timely epic, “The Family Roe,” Jane Roe is both heroine and villain — and a paragon of human complexity. The Epic Life of the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There are more than enough novels in the world, and nobody is more painfully aware of that than the person attempting to write one. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Toshiaki’s pet turtle is named Shelley, a joke that works on several levels, one of them painfully unfunny. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z But even a half-sized season—pulling back from last year’s formal experiments to deliver more flat-out laughs—was painfully funny and hilarious real enough to last us another year. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2015 So Far 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Philip French, president of London's official competition jury, described Ida as a "courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation - the German occupation and the Holocaust - which continues to resonate". Polish film Ida wins double awards 2013-10-21T08:21:25Z A sometimes sharp but painfully predictable “Constantine” premieres Friday night, where it has been paired up with the return of the network’s sturdy occult/cop drama, “Grimm.” NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well “It’s not as if anything in all of pukey human history has ever changed because some painfully brilliant person wrote down their ideas,” a narrator says in her second collection of stories, “Liberty’s Excess.” The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In both, you can hear Sumner struggle – often painfully – under the shadow of the man who came before him. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order 2011-08-08T13:38:25Z After struggling with their sex life in Season 1, Jeff and Shauna seem painfully but, again, hotly ignited by the aftermath of her infidelity and cold-blooded murder. "Yellowjackets" goes full on Norman Bates in its primal, elemental return 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z "That type of soul-baring was now reserved for the internet, and it was packaged in many different ways not as painfully direct." An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The events of the past week have made painfully clear that the fruits of this urban renaissance haven't been extended to all. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian It's 9:30am on a painfully dull Thursday morning in the office. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z The only way it could end was painfully – not the kind that physically bruises or draws blood. "WandaVision" concludes by giving Martin Scorsese the MCU film he always wanted 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z All of it contrasts painfully with the specificity of the name and date of death of the unseen migrant. “Best of Luck with the Wall” Puts the Borderlands Back in Context 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Most of our days now are spent watching ourselves being watched, bent like a digital Narcissus over thumbnails of our own faces, learning just how painfully oxymoronic it is to try to appear unobserved. Zoomed out: how can we politely tell people we’d rather not chat? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Because they began in places of utter ineptitude and painfully ascended to the status of hardened veterans, Strayed, Bryson, and Coelho were able to fashion engaging emotional trajectories for their books. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z My flight from San Francisco to Taipei was delayed, and painfully so. A foodie’s stinky-tofu tutorial in Taiwan 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In 2007, she took up photography and, turning the camera on herself, began to make starkly direct, somewhat humorous, painfully vulnerable self-portraits. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Levy’s conclusion is deliberately ambiguous, but it’s clear that her title is painfully ironic; the man who thought he saw everything in fact saw almost nothing. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z My brilliant friend also pointed out that in these kinds of series, people do grow, no matter how painfully. I Watched ‘Fleabag.’ I Watched ‘Insecure.’ What’s Next? 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Both music and video companies are painfully aware of the consequences of losing a retailer responsible for around a third of UK physical music and video sales. HMV: A tragedy or fresh start? 2013-01-15T14:35:33Z Vernon could tell his children were painfully aware of the distance. ‘I’m really just trying to get to know my granddaughter again’ 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He planned to stave off retirement for a few more seasons, he says, and then it happened anyway, painfully, without a farewell performance or any kind of closure. The pandemic was the final blow for some dance companies. How do the survivors stay nimble? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Although the words remained mine, the images that accompanied them, the rhythms of the editing, even the occasional insertion of music, made certain episodes startlingly, sometimes painfully fresh. My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It was a painfully cold Chicago day, and I was still thawing out when an editorial assistant handed me a fax that had been sent to the newsroom. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z A tense, claustrophobic – possibly cannibalistic – psychological thriller in which grown men begin to lose their minds and turn on each other inside a painfully enclosed space. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z But with so many types of cosmetic rejiggering, results are often painfully obvious and difficult to correct. Hollywood to Actors: No Surgery, Please 2010-04-23T21:40:00Z You can imagine how the show would proceed from here, but you would probably imagine it less painfully. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z In fact, she was very much of her time, often painfully so. She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Calling herself Hillary Davenport, Ruby spends the day alternately enjoying and being bewildered by her newfound cultural currency before metamorphosing — graphically, painfully — back into Blackness. This ‘Lovecraft Country’ Actor Is Happy in Her Own Skin 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Like so many movies about the hidden dangers of teenage life, this old-fashioned psychological drama, with its well-wrought scenes of tears and shouting and violence, is likely to strike real-life teenagers as painfully ridiculous. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z Poetic, impressionistic and densely layered, “Sankofa” often feels primitive and sometimes painfully obvious. Haile Gerima and his landmark film ‘Sankofa’ are being rediscovered. Finally. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z A painfully unstable two-note chord, known historically as “the Devil’s interval,” the tritone begs for acoustic resolution but does not always find it, a state of affairs that taxes the nerves. Peter Maxwell Davies, Contrarian British Composer, Dies at 81 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The piano arrangement maintains much of the watercolor delicacy of the original orchestral score, allowing Mr. Gerhaher’s clear, sometimes painfully fragile voice to skirt the border between singing and speaking. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z "That was my first time to earn money for singing and my first time to blow it afterward," he recalled in "I Lived to Tell it All," a painfully self-critical memoir published in 1996. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z Such delicious moments of movie magic are in painfully short supply. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z And there can be absolutely no Eric prancing around in that painfully wrong fairyland. "True Blood" recap: Warning signs 2010-08-30T12:30:00Z But everything in Saul’s face—a haunted woodcut, painfully alive to everything around him—tells us that this small but highly risky gesture is imperative. Review: Holocaust Drama Son of Saul Is Rigorous, Demanding and Rewarding 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z This is authentic, almost painfully so; this is Oscar laid bare. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z There’s a scene during the sixth episode of USA’s “Mr. Robot” in which the lead character, a painfully anxious computer hacker named Elliot, pulls off an extraordinary feat. Looking Back on ‘Mr. Robot’ and a Season of Hacker Drama 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Critical response An “exultantly mean, painfully affecting comedy.” My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z It would really have helped — because a few years ago, America went through a painfully simplistic debate about how artists from one place should or should not depict images and objects from another. How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z "He's like grabbing my breasts. He's touching my thighs. He rips my underwear . . . off," Heard painfully states. Lance Bass mocks Amber Heard's testimony in now-deleted post, jumping on a nasty TikTok trend 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Scott Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, is two weeks away from the publication of a book that painfully describes his lifetime of suffering from debilitating anxiety disorders. Stossel Family Problems Spelled Out in New Releases 2013-12-22T22:15:52Z On one level, that’s painfully disingenuous for a character as self-aware as he is. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The arrangements are sparse, the lyrics painfully direct. A heartbreaking tribute from a grieving husband 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z So said Kurt Vonnegut, author of some of the most painfully funny literature of the last century. Guardian Books podcast: Humour and Kurt Vonnegut 2012-11-23T14:38:57Z Kristine Mahan, 23, of Denver, came to experience orbiting after a “painfully digital” seven-months-long relationship with someone who lived in Minnesota while she lived in Boston. Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Major record labels, after contracting painfully for much of the 2000s, are now posting huge profits. Musicians Say Streaming Doesn’t Pay. Can the Industry Change? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z His death, then, made something painfully clear: he was more orphan than bad-boy genius. Cathy Horyn?s Key Fashion Moments of 2010 2010-12-31T04:26:10Z Rick and Morty episodes are loaded cultural references from movies, books, and television shows, which range from painfully obvious to the vague and obscure. Everything Dan Harmon Told Us About Rick and Morty Season 3 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z But as with Angela, her experiences are otherwise down to earth, and painfully realistic for anyone connected to the world by electronics but little else. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 3: This Is Your Brain on Drugs 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z We’d all like more buzz than we’re getting, and it’s starting to dawn on us that buzz occurs in painfully brief and finite quantities. Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ died of antiviral causes 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The characters around the edges become more visible, and their absurdities more painfully familiar. Olivia Laing’s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The scarcity of goods was actually made painfully obvious at Christie’s on Wednesday. 2010-01-30T05:37:00Z I eat in painfully cool millennial “wellness” workspaces and Ghanaian-community-favoured local halls. My life as an (almost) vegan restaurant critic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z She looked entirely, painfully human, unpolished, unguarded, by turns endearing, appealing, likable — “I’m used to being collegial,” she said, breaking into a rare smile at one point — and also susceptible to harm. Perspective | ‘Gut-wrenching’: What it felt like to watch Ford and Kavanaugh testify 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z These children are tentative, painfully sincere and at times terribly raw. ‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “For me, gender doesn’t matter,” I announce, painfully cheerful. “She wanted to be normal. We both did”: Why gender, sexuality, and desire matter 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Photograph: © The National Gallery, London Gustave Courbet, Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate, 1871-2 Courbet was a persecuted survivor of the Paris Commune when he painted this melancholy and painfully real still life. Gallery taken over by giant Felix the Cat – the week in art 2013-07-12T14:39:06Z His smooth and painfully genuine voice fills the space between the different slow journeys the piano and synth embrace. Local Natives’ Kelcey Ayer brings solo project Jaws of Love to Barboza 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Friday, Jan. 7 After a painfully early conference call and day of ineffective writing, I stopped by the Chelsea Market before taking Metro-North home to visit my parents in White Plains. What I Wore: Fashionably Chic for Library Life 2011-01-15T01:31:29Z As the Greek crisis unfolds, these ancient questions are made painfully new. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z Baldwin later reflected, “The adventure remained very painfully in my mind, and indeed, was to shed a certain light for me on the adventure occurring through the American looking-glass.” Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z My first instinct was to protest this reckless growth — until Phan mentioned the couple’s previous restaurant, the painfully underrated Green Papaya in Bethesda, a pioneer in pushing Vietnamese cuisine into more refined and rarefied air. Banh Ta Deli review: Where Vietnamese sandwiches pack in artistry and balance 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z But while his underlying views were painfully dated, his conception of banter was entirely modern: a sly expansion of the word’s meaning, and a self-conscious contention that it provided an impregnable defence. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z This case of mistaken identity was painfully reminiscent of the Atlanta Olympics bombing case in 1996, when authorities fingered an innocent man, and the news media ran with it, destroying his life. As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts 2012-12-15T21:49:08Z Symptoms abruptly surfaced two days later, and after spending the next week nauseous, achy and painfully sensitive to light, he thought he’d played his final performance — maybe ever. Alex Brightman Lays ‘Beetlejuice’ to Rest 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z So painfully unaware that he's going to screw up his career something rotten twice within the space of the next 25 years. Flick teaser: How to remove a Grease stain 2010-06-02T09:15:00Z It may be possible to work our way to new and better symbols, painfully and contentiously, but perhaps we don’t need them. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z Having to tell my kids that I couldn’t afford to buy them Christmas presents will forever be painfully etched into my memory. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In dispatching the poor writer from Texas, “Triumph Over the Grave” turns to three recitations of loss, each painfully exacting. Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z More than anything, Wilson comes across as limelight-averse, even painfully shy. Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s a painfully explicit political parable that, while valid, banks too much on shock value. ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ Review: Pride and Pole Dancing Behind Glass 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “Going, Going, Gone,” from 1990, is a painfully detailed catalog of the ravages of drug abuse: “Liquid, tablet, capsule, powder/Fumes and smoke and vapor/The payoff is the same in the end.” Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But the feelings of guilt, anger, hurt and sorrow that erupt between her and Maxine in their few reunions, and the grief that underlies them, ring painfully true. ‘Black Like Us’ explores color, identity in a Seattle family 2014-02-06T22:49:54Z Even the most devoted fan found 1981’s Looks & Smiles painfully miserable, and Loach says he made a mess of the only other film he made in the 80s, Fatherland. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Back in the States, the in-office scenes inside American Century Records are painfully accurate on dozens of levels. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Martin Scorsese’s premiere gets the New York Dolls right — and Led Zeppelin so wrong 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z And, as the opening scene of "Benched" makes painfully clear, Nina, being both, is in for a double dose of "whatever." 'Benched' is indefensibly cynical and not real funny 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The second is the corresponding authenticity of Helena’s emotions about her father, painfully revisited and refined as she tracks him. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Breakfast goes painfully awry in this old-fashioned black-and-white comedy. 3 Minute Masterpiece winners help launch SIFF 2012 2012-05-17T07:37:31Z Jupiter is no tragic Wotan figure but an aging and often bemused lord of the gods who matures painfully, blesses the penniless but happy Danae and takes his leave of mortals forever. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z And without being cruel and naming names, there’s always one cast member who’s not a natural singer and that’s painfully obvious here. Please stop the beat: why we've had enough of musical episodes 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z But Morton is the ace – painfully alive, endlessly human. Samantha Morton: ‘Maybe I was the first person to publicly answer Weinstein’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to imagine this material realized with the maniac verve of a film like James Wan’s “Malignant,” where the ridiculous verges on camp, instead of how Salky plays it: thuddingly literal and painfully dumb. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z His frankness is brutal, but at 52, Weller is painfully aware that his creative time is not infinite, and he has been further driven by his father's death last year. Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z The painfully literal definition of the term “woke” and snooze-worthy answers like caffeine, melatonin, and the alertness aid capsule “No Doz,” crushed any hopes of addressing social justice issues. “Jeopardy!” features a “stay woke” category, entire internet cringes 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z If you were to say “as funny as a heart attack in an Alan Ayckbourn play,” you would mean that a situation is so painfully, awkwardly sad that it is downright hilarious. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z It was painfully evident that he wanted to communicate something of value to his audience. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z ‘Among the most painfully and obviously vulnerable celebrities’ . Kerry and Me 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z There are some painfully awkward descriptions; when strands of Gargi’s hair escape her hasty bun, it’s described as a moment when “lose entrails fall around her face.” A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Even if they do say something painfully true, they usually toss it off as a joke. Review: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Heather Renée Sweet – my real name – was a very quiet, painfully shy person. Dita Von Teese: ‘Staying pale takes some effort in LA’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z And because this is decidedly Charlotte’s story, and a painfully realistic one at that, the jokes often elicit more rueful laughs. She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z At a 2004 concert, the "Gangnam Style" rapper performs a song with lyrics about killing "Yankees" who have been torturing Iraqi captives and their families "slowly and painfully." Correction: People-PSY-Protests story 2012-12-08T19:16:05Z As the sisters entered their late teens, they faced painfully limited prospects as daughters of a humble clergyman. She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “By casting a Black man as Shylock in America in 2021, one becomes painfully aware of the connections between Shakespeare’s 16th-century Venice and our world now,” she said in a news release. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But here’s the thing: it’s not just that this characterization of Romney is painfully correct. Did I Just Say That Out Loud? Romney Adviser?s Unerasable Etch-a-Sketch Comment 2012-03-21T19:29:58Z And then there’s Ivanka Trump, alternately sporting brown hair, which makes her look painfully young, and the sleek, basic blonde she wears today. Ivanka Trump is a person, allegedly 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z In fact, I've always wondered why someone who seems so painfully awkward in the company of others would want to punish himself with the agonies of public performance? Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z Indeed, even as we see the film’s subjects describing and confronting horrific events, there is something painfully quiet about how the trauma looks from the outside. ‘Here. Is. Better.’ Review: A Glimmer of Hope 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet this book is a painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside, for us. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Having queued for hours they yelled every word back at the painfully skinny and heavily-tattoed singer, who bowed his head under the weight of their devotion. Fjords, funk and feedback at Norway's Bergenfest 2010-05-03T17:53:00Z Mixed with dramatic inhalations and scratching noises made with loofahs, they created a sound world painfully innocent and fragile. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Devastatingly simple, its tale of lives and loves gone awry showcases the standout qualities of Polley's verse: deft concision, musical prowess, syntactic verve, and a voice that rings painfully true. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z There were only so many times I could say, “Now you’re free to meet someone more worthy of you,” before it sounded condescending and I was painfully reminded of my own past dating trauma. Please don’t masturbate with my husband 2013-05-29T23:30:00Z After struggling with their sex life in Season 1, Jeff and Shauna seem painfully but, again, hotly ignited by the aftermath of her infidelity and cold-blooded murder. "Yellowjackets" goes full on Norman Bates in its primal, elemental return 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z On the flip side of point #4 is that person who just doesn’t understand how discussing the status of their project and projected sales volumes for 2015 is so painfully annoying. How to Hang With Your Coworkers Outside the Office 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z He's painfully aware that there's no treatment for Pompe disease, but he has heard about a doctor who's made great strides in enzyme research, which could lead to a breakthrough. 2010-01-22T21:22:00Z Another painfully protracted awards season has come to a close and it’s ended with a last-minute twist. And the Oscar might go to ... an early look at 2018's possible nominees 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Sanders was as complicated as anyone in his orbit of painfully human performers; he’d just trained himself to keep his nerve endings tamped down. Garry Shandling Was an Artist of Subtle Sadness 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Powell is very good at dramatising those mortifying moments when a servant's lack of autonomy, of self-hood, are brought painfully home to her. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z Garry Shandling, a writer and comedian who created and starred in innovative television shows that spoofed his painfully insecure persona and the conventions of television itself, died March 24 at a Los Angeles hospital. Garry Shandling, who parodied TV’s conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z These three films are real, and painfully so. Commentary: 3 films you must see to understand Pakistan, its problems 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Broadcast later that year, Asylum was a triumph: a painfully beautiful portrait of patients from a mental hospital near the Soviet border. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z It’s a bit like opening a time capsule and finding that the artifacts haven’t been made pleasantly exotic by the passage of time but only more dismally familiar or painfully close. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z You can't escape the place you were made, where you were moulded and shaped and painfully thrown just like every other lump of clay that was turned into something in the Potteries. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z Anyone who has lived in America for the past six years will find the divisions depicted in “This Land” to be familiar, perhaps painfully so. ‘This Land’ Review: Revisiting the 2020 Election 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The scene has become a feedback loop of reciprocal parroting so grotesquely divorced from any genuine humor that the effort falls painfully flat. Not all animals have a use: The passing of John Berger brings to mind a prancing cockatoo 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z And West, 53, and Debicki, 32, were charged with depicting the most precarious chapter of the Charles and Diana story: the painfully public implosion of their royal marriage. ‘The Crown’ Has a New Diana and Charles to Tear Apart 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z This novel helped me through some very difficult times with its poignant, reflective and painfully honest tone. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - review 2013-07-22T14:00:00Z He said he was stepping away because “it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news due to my actions.” Brian Williams: Personal branding got in the way of the news 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Close is a handsome woman whose natural warmth and poise bear little resemblance to the painfully shy figure on screen, with her downcast eyes and prosthetically altered wingnut ears. Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z It seemed inevitable that the first Star Wars movie in more than a decade would be a gross disappointment, a hastily conceived and painfully contrived mess. Is the Han Solo Star Wars spin-off spiralling towards disaster? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Reducing a wardrobe down to a few painfully elegant cashmere-cotton blend tops is only really possible if you can put down at least $1,000 in one go for the creation of your “capsule wardrobe”. Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Everything that happens thereafter is bog-standard for a story of this nature, right down to the slightly anachronistic and painfully generic nuclear family at its core. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z As in “Serena,” the story is set in the Depression, and the poverty is painfully acute. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z But in this remarkable museum debut I can’t help but see Barton’s experiments in perception as the fruits of a solitary and painfully individual need — not as conscious innovations on the modernist front lines. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Breaking up the art collection has been painfully slow, but it hasn’t been nearly as messy as the merger of the school. Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollment: Two years later, Corcoran’s breakup still stings 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z One listen to this painfully yearning opening track should persuade otherwise. F&M playlist 2010-08-19T22:55:00Z When he manages to extract them from their boots, they’re painfully red. No Waiting to Play This ‘Godot’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z I doubted it, but the GPS said Jerome was just a few miles distant, and I couldn’t face retracing all that painfully gained ground. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “What is most remarkable about this film is how thoroughly — how painfully, how honestly, how beautifully — it answers that question.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Fences’ and a Milestone on ‘Shark Tank’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She turned from superhero to little girl – smiling meekly; painfully vulnerable. Performance artist Marina Abramovi? ? 'I have to be like a mountain' 2010-03-19T12:26:00Z Her parents paid bribes to keep her in her old school, but it left her a painfully shy outsider. Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z He underwent a grueling rehabilitation that entailed confinement in an iron lung, muscle transplants and relearning to walk, painfully, with crutches. Stephen Dwoskin, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 73 2012-07-22T02:44:24Z Then there’s Watt as another fellow player, who makes it painfully clear why Redd should not be permitted anywhere near the field. ‘S.N.L.’ Imagines the Impeachment Trial That Could Have Been 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s an almost painfully pleasurable memory: she and her wonderful husband, Rob, holding my tiny son, and beaming with almost grandparental pride. When my mother died, I inherited her best friend – and she became family 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z We Americans are painfully shy of aristocracy even though we really do have one ourselves. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In this tale, a painfully lonely foreign businessman, adrift in a frightening land called New York, finds comfort and possible freedom in the arms of a taxi-driving ifrit. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Carried through all Byrd’s vocal music is economy, lucidity and emotional clarity in his approach to text — at a time when words and their representations were contested so painfully. William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z For many in my adopted home of the UK, this is a painfully difficult question, but I would choose neither. Two raw fish dishes to serve on top of the perfect bowl of rice | Cook residency 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But “Beauty,” which is by turns wickedly funny and painfully obvious in its intentions, isn’t interested in forgiveness. Dance Review: She?s Plastic, Beautiful and Rules the World 2011-07-01T21:25:58Z Her venture into a local dance class ends with her father condemning the group’s painfully modest performance outfits as whorish. She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D. 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z His breakthrough work, published in 1971, was his most painfully personal. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Words that might be thought "at best maudlin, at worst painfully trite" become transformed in the "mouth of an expressive, and doomed, teenager". Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z Small, slightly dull and painfully worthy, the Easter Bilby is without question our Captain America. Rise of the Guardians and other all-star supergroups 2012-11-29T20:00:01Z By that time it’s painfully clear that Philippe would probably do a much better job than Martin of running the business. Movie Review: ‘You Will Be My Son’ Counters Mortality With Planning 2013-08-15T22:52:28Z More important, as the finale makes painfully clear, the series rejects the easy moral escape clause of “It’s us against the world.” ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z That was the route that I went as a painfully shy, very skinny kid. Keegan-Michael Key Will Do Anything for a Laugh 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The show is painfully sharp in its portrayal of the way grief is performed on social media and I.R.L. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Dubbed the "sound of young Sunderland", the band look like a gang, and their painfully tight drainpipes justify their claim to have the "best trousers in pop". Frankie & the Heartstrings 2010-04-06T21:15:00Z I mean, my sister didn't have to, at age 22, painfully confess to our parents that she was attracted to men. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z These good, buttoned-down characters can go a painfully long time without saying the things they most need to say, and at times the narrative’s quiet patience can make a reader want to scream. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And in her latest, “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy,” she continues to explore her journey as a “devout, if terrible, Christian” — at a cultural and political moment when mercy feels in painfully limited supply. Anne Lamott: “The grace of this world is hilariously huge” 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z What is radical, or even progressive, about the painfully kitschy “Chamberlain Casket” of 1903, a hodgepodge of metal boats, figurines and medallions, meant to evoke medieval reliquaries, but really floating in art-historical limbo? At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Victorian Radicals’ is certainly Victorian. But radical? Not so much. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It gets worse, at times with painfully comic results, when the three workers you’re riding with drive deeper into the countryside. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z This production either broke or mended something in me; I felt — brilliantly, painfully, cathartically — near the point of physical exhaustion. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z In the painfully juvenile, short-lived Fox comedy “Making History,” a black character who travels to 1775 is mistaken for a slave, but it’s played like a one-off joke. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Collaboration between large Washington arts institutions is painfully rare. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z He described numerous later incidents of abuse; he said that once Mr. Levine had pinched him painfully until he cried, and then continued pinching him, to wound him. James Levine Denies ‘Unfounded’ Sexual Abuse Accusations 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z With a mortality rate as high as 90 percent, it kills painfully and swiftly, with a seemingly remorseless calculus. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Rather than twisting unexpectedly, the scripts dug deeper and more painfully each week into the characters and situations initially established. Happy Valley TV review – Sarah Lancashire gives her best performance 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Thien captures painfully well the depersonalization and numbness of living through the Cultural Revolution, particularly the “day-to-day insincerity” of casual conversation, larded with perfunctory praise for the party and Chairman Mao. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The truth is that I was painfully aware of what was happening. Postpartum psychosis: ‘I’m a thing possessed, an animal. I am nearly sectioned twice’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Her story in “News of the World” is painfully simple. Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z "My Teenage Werewolf" is painfully funny, occasionally shocking, tender, maddening and wry. 'My Teenage Werewolf': Lauren Kessler's journey through the thicket of adolescence with her daughter 2010-08-18T20:16:00Z There are dozens of the texts: lives encapsulated, trivialised, hilariously and painfully condensed. Gabriel Orozco: Permanent playtime 2011-01-24T21:29:00Z From another, he looks like a child of painfully recognizable hard times. Movie Review | 'Children of Invention': Scheming, Scrambling and Surviving in Tze Chun?s Debut 2010-03-12T00:03:00Z But the longer you watch, the more they hang painfully in the air, stirring up our own unasked questions. Art in Review: KARL HAENDEL: ?Questions for My Father? 2011-10-27T21:36:22Z As an alcoholic, I found Dudley Moore’s attempts to stop slurring his speech in “Arthur” painfully unfunny. Letters: ?Arthur?: No Chaser Required 2010-09-01T16:40:00Z Which is to say, looking at Smith’s art now makes us painfully aware that the “working man’s society” he envisioned has not materialized. Art Review: ?David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-13T22:17:25Z Cheryl has never worked with someone like Mark, who must remain on his back, his thin, fragile body painfully contorted. Movie Review: ‘The Sessions,’ With John Hawkes and Helen Hunt 2012-10-18T22:04:26Z Either way, it's Dominic, the disembodied voice on the Internet, who emerges as not just painfully funny but genuinely sympathetic. A drunk dial goes viral 2011-03-31T18:06:00Z Everything, it seems, comes at a painfully high cost, even that baby Ms. King’s character so desperately wants. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Service was painfully slow on the night we went, but it was a rather busy Friday dinner rush. Thai Palms: Flavors of Southeast Asia in Rainier Valley 2013-04-18T21:58:06Z “The consistent theme of my journey is disillusionment, so painfully with the Catholic Church, the Republican Party, my family. The stories that I use to explain my family turned out to be inadequate,” he says. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Leotta’s portrait of Jody as a teenager easily manipulated by a predatory older man rings painfully true, as do her many examples of rampant sexism. A chilling look at crimes against women in ‘A Good Killing’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Several stories are set painfully in the present, like Sami Shah’s “Reap,” which involves an American Air Force officer conducting remote surveillance in Pakistan. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Stanislavski felt the company's acting – his own as much that of his fellow players – remained painfully self-conscious and imitative; it lacked the pure "truth" he conceived of as the prime object of the actor's art. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z Twitter has been dying a painfully slow death over the past five years, but I think Elon Musk is the perfect captain for sinking the ship. What I want to leave behind in 2023 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z It was unfortunate that just after London won the race to stage the Games, the global banking system collapsed, with its repercussions still painfully felt. London 2012 anti-logos 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z But there are painfully few shards of humility in "I Met Someone." Satirical rant against Hollywood goes over the top in 'I Met Someone' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The trio's vocal harmonies were riveting, though volume levels were painfully high in the opening moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash a special treat for boomers 2012-09-15T17:29:04Z But on that Mexico jaunt Faye—during a side trip to an abandoned monastery—realizes that she has fallen in love with the young man, and this becomes painfully clear to the mogul. “Song to Song”: Terrence Malick’s Romantic Idealism 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The purpose seems to be communication of painfully discovered and powerfully held convictions about the possibility of transcendence within human life, on the time-scale of a single life. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The most compelling among them are two painfully lonely souls who reach out, shyly and tentatively, to one another. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z Cheesy visual effects, flat shooting, slack directing and pacing, risible dialogue and characterization, lots of crummy acting, plus a painfully dull first act make this anything but a rapturous experience. 'Left Behind' is a disaster in all the wrong ways 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Whatever fantasy of love we were projecting onto the young Hollywood couple appears to have shattered as quickly and painfully as the end of their relationship. When fans mourns a celebrity breakup 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Watching the trailer for the new season of Review, which returns to Comedy Central 30 July made me painfully, distractingly sad. Meet the creator of Review – Comedy Central's best-kept secret 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In its raw state, the white pith is painfully bitter, but that bitterness is what makes eating the whole orange worthwhile. In This Roasted Orange Chicken, Every Part of the Fruit Shines 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Langham’s disclosures prove a heartbreaking disappointment for Dr. DePaul, who painfully, tearfully tries to coax secrets out of Virginia as they wait for her to receive another cancer treatment. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Terence Rattigan inevitably comes to mind: nowhere more so than in the painfully funny scene where Holly's tongue-tied father seeks to offer his son a little sexual education. Review 2010-06-01T23:29:00Z My cheeks redden for him, for us all, as words jam painfully in his throat and spluttered syllables echo mockingly across the silence. How "The King's Speech" gets stuttering wrong 2011-02-21T23:01:00Z Ad copy from the nineteen-sixties seems painfully earnest to us now. Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Soon afterward, Capt. Lawrence Oates found himself limping painfully because of an old Boer War injury, exacerbated by scurvy. Review | For a snowy day, a winter classic 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Eleanor, like her cinematic predecessors, is charmed by Isaiah's innocence and drawn to his loneliness, a feeling with which she's painfully familiar. "Let the Right One In" files down its fangs for it TV adaptation, preferring to stake the heart 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “Many of the records are painfully rare, with only a single digit number of copies known to exist,” Lewis said. How Two Guys Saved Soul Singers from Obscurity 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In it, he plays a painfully shy limo driver with the unlikely dream of working for the MTA. 5 great Philip Seymour Hoffman performances 2014-02-03T03:09:46Z And for me, East Hollywood evokes, perfectly and painfully, an echo of the feeling of roaming around the commercial thoroughfares of the Greenwich Village of my childhood in the late 1970s and early 80s. Gangland eatery, El Comal seals the well-deserved reputation of Los Angeles as a diverse food city 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The Vatican called assisted suicide “an absurdity” after Brittany Maynard chose to end her own life rather than succumb painfully to brain cancer. In These Novels, Women With Cancer Decide to Ditch the People-Pleasing 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z What had made Biden so compelling — falling painfully short of achieving his ultimate political goal — vanished once he made it to the White House. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Fast forward to 2018, and it became painfully clear that while that was a nice thought and all, it was also highly and incredibly unrealistic. How to Eat in 2019 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Stipkovits remembers conversations cut painfully short because of poor reception, and the swell of anticipation mixed with compassion and admiration that would kick in when a call from Iraq reached her in McKeesport. From Crayons to Chemo, He’s Back by Her Side 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The frustrated almost-communications, the drama of seeing that the other person is typing, without knowing what they’re going to say—it’s storytelling about love in the digital world that is almost painfully true to life. The best, worst and weirdest ads of 2014 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Other shrimp, submerged in a painfully salty swamp of red sauce and grits, didn’t fare as well. Taste of the Big Easy: bacony, boozy, crispy-fried and good 2014-02-27T22:27:38Z In 2004, the Labour MP Stephen Pound put down an early day motion asking the house to recognise the 10th anniversary of Hicks's death, describing him as an "unflinching and painfully honest political philosopher". The adulation of Bill Hicks 2010-05-16T22:30:00Z Naturally, she then died before her time, slowly and quite painfully, as befits an errant wife. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z If Ms. Skarpetowska’s work was derivative, Mr. Parson’s premiere was painfully thin. Dance Review: Works by David Parsons and Katarzyna Skarpetowska 2013-01-16T18:51:10Z It’s also about the struggle between earnest young people and the equally earnest, painfully misguided adults who are trying to save their souls. Review: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ Resists the Straight and Narrow 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Her family was new money, painfully aware of their tenuous place in the “Downton Abbey”-era class structure. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Aside from that, this "Strange New Worlds" speaks to Khan's legacy by making a historically heavy conundrum painfully personal. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z I will say I grew up painfully shy, D, which is hard for people to believe now since I can't seem to stop talking. Valerie Jarrett's leap of faith that started her path to the Obama White House 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z It tells us that Rosie is painfully aware of how she looks and what people are thinking about her. ‘The Body Remembers’ Review: One Prospers, the Other Doesn’t 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z What I remember so painfully about my divorce is that when I called my mother, she would cry. Carolyn Hax: Advice from readers on romantic gifts, holiday-scheduling stress 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z There is a massive middle ground to be explored between robotic Teleprompter readings and the chaos MTV's award shows so painfully cultivate. 2010-01-18T05:46:00Z By showing the patient a level of acceptance, she hopes to facilitate a more comfortable atmosphere for “the work” — her painfully accurate pseudonym for psychotherapy. When my therapist dared me to sleep with her 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z But always – from the blitz-set After the Raid, to the painfully funny radio psychodrama Silent Sentry, to the eerie chiller Newton's Swing and beyond – a persistent and consistent melancholy permeated the spare prose. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z And of course, at the same time, she’s painfully perceiving the ways in which she, too, blunders and is inept. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z We are more painfully aware of that now than ever. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z And knowing what we’ve long known about him, no viewer could have doubted Walda’s fate throughout the painfully long sequence preceding her death. Review: Jon Snow's Fate Is Finally Revealed 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Drawing on one of his experiences, Cory recalled attending a business meeting when a contact lens became inconveniently and quite painfully dislodged. Worcester playwright hopes for success in debut 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z For Sally Hawkins, the cliche proved painfully literal when she attended the premiere of her new film, Submarine, last autumn. Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable' 2011-03-13T00:05:19Z To foreign ears the Norwegian songs sounded painfully obvious and ever so slightly silly, but the fierce adoration of the crowd could not be disputed. Fjords, funk and feedback at Norway's Bergenfest 2010-05-03T17:53:00Z The publisher breathlessly reveals that “the sisters painfully discover that being a celebrity in L.A.’s gilded Dollhouse isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing 2011-11-12T18:07:26Z "Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown," Burnham sings, and whether he wants us to or not, we feel his meaning maybe a little too closely and painfully. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z And I don’t like your declaring a man painfully estranged from his parents “the happiest in his life.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: On the outs with the in-laws 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But we have seen too clearly, felt too painfully how the trappings of power can be marshaled for destruction. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z She was painfully honest, often to her own detriment.” 2010-02-15T22:26:00Z Researchers asked subjects to hold their hand in painfully cold water to raise their heart rate and blood pressure. Do women stay cooler under stress than men? 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Many of those affected by these obstacles had been hoping to reunite with their loved ones — and their reunions have been indefinitely, painfully deferred. Russian travelers struggle to reunite with loved ones: ‘I might never see the man I love again’ 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The goal of the rebooted "Roseanne" seemed painfully obvious: Normalize the racism and intolerance of Trump supporters for gain and profit. The downfall of “Roseanne”: How ABC’s attempt to normalize Trump-era racism backfired 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z For Gergiev, the shadow of World War II remains a painfully divisive factor in Ukrainian society. Valery Gergiev wants to make music, but the West brings up Putin 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The worst of Night 1 may have been the format itself, which started with a painfully high-octane video that managed to simultaneously evoke “The NFL Today,” World Wrestling Entertainment and “Jeopardy!” Perspective | The debate format is an embarrassment. Here’s how to make it better. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Our kids are now coming up on a year of painfully disrupted day-to-day life, where everything from playdates to grandparent hugs, field trips, sports teams and birthday gatherings were sacrificed. Perspective | Our obsession with happiness is making our kids miserable 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z I lay there for four weeks while the plastics mended, and learned painfully first to lower my framed leg on to the floor, then to take a few steps with a Zimmer frame. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Beaumont argues that Smith, like Poe’s narrators, possesses the clarity of the convalescent, for whom everything is new, painfully vivid, exaggerated and yet somehow truthful. Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Somehow he knows that this is all going to end, that this is all so ephemeral, and I think he was acutely, painfully aware that he wasn’t going to get all of his song sung. Andrew Garfield Can’t Remember Who He Was Before ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Completed in 2000, it seems all the more painfully meaningful after Sept. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z But as the disappointment over school places illustrates, progress is painfully uneven. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z He was painfully aware of his deteriorating mental capabilities and pleaded with every visitor to give him a gun and a bullet. The case for Medicare for all — plus 7 smaller steps to fix U.S. health care 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z As much about forgiveness as about fanaticism, it insists, painfully and passionately, on the shared humanity that binds the perpetrators and the victims of religiously motivated violence. Six French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Some of the running imagery that shows her happily independent is almost identical to the scene in the second movement when she is painfully lonely: the correspondence is breathtaking. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z Showcasing Cooke’s gospel roots, it’s a song that painfully and beautifully captures the edge between hope and despair. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Her roommate, the painfully shy 18-year-old Mei, becomes a dorm pariah for failing to roust her before she slips into fatal unconsciousness. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The messages are often very personal, sometimes painfully so. In Paris, Archivists Preserve Tokens of Grief 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z We hear about how Gomez’s work helps one client’s case and hurts another’s, painfully, and Knafo reminds us that Gomez is a study in grays, not in black and white, like all of us. “Conviction,” Reviewed: A Bronx P.I. Pursues Justice, and Glory 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z And in the first few episodes it’s obvious — sometimes painfully so — that every effort is being made to do justice to the texture and humor of Mr. Leonard’s fiction. Television Review | 'Justified': On FX, an Elmore Leonard Lawman in Kentucky 2010-03-15T21:40:00Z This was six years ago, when refugees from the war in Iraq were flooding the city, and my Arabic studies were progressing at a painfully slow pace. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z That is how Haiti is recovering as well, after six months; painfully slowly where it is recovering at all. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z His ear for fretful, jumpy, funny dialogue is painfully good. Tough luck leads to angsty laughs in ‘Sons of the Prophet’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The abuse of power, however, is painfully clear – and this is the real subject of this book. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z Driving while black, as the news keeps painfully reminding us, is a much more fraught experience. 'The Bitter Game': Personalizing the Black Lives Matter movement through theater 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z She is more painfully funny about lessons she learned by watching her older sisters and their boyfriends. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z Jones is a formidable Amanda, the mother who refuses to recognize the reality of her painfully shy daughter’s physical disability and psychic fragility. Star-Crossed (and –Blessed) Revivals: Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams 2013-10-02T09:45:54Z My first kiss came painfully late, at sixteen. The dominatrix class that unchained me 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Damon Lindelof, co-creator of “The Leftovers,” is painfully familiar with that brutal truth, owing to the abuse he sustained concerning the way he closed his better-known creation “Lost.” The end of “The Leftovers” leaves us to contemplate what remains, and what we have 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z All are painfully aware that whatever the outcome of the power struggle, the family’s fragile equilibrium may forever be shattered. Theater Review: ‘Substance of Fire’ Opens at Second Stage Theater 2014-04-28T02:00:01Z He painfully projects the horror of someone who cannot bear to be touched. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z Husymans’s true subject had been bourgeois happiness, a happiness painfully out of reach for a bachelor. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z And — this is the real issue — I am painfully shy. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Baby’s on board, but there’s not a seat on the rail car 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Loving and desiring, she painfully learns, are not the same things — and so we find her in the beginning crouched by the fire, utterly alone, with only the hiss of gas for company. 'The Deep Blue Sea': A ravishing film set in a ravaged London 2012-04-19T20:21:06Z This was painfully revealed in “The Woodmans,” the documentary film released last year. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z This “you” is his wife — a woman Shields describes as painfully and thrillingly indifferent to him. A Writer Gets Candid About Marriage and Humiliation in ‘The Trouble With Men’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z To do so, yes, means you may be painfully aware of what you are and will never be. Unpretty: I live the life I want to live – even if I didn’t win the beauty lottery 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Her speech was as eccentric and abrupt as dada, but it was also painfully real. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z This is how it is in what Scudamore calls "the realm of the painfully known". Wreaking by James Scudamore – review 2013-07-26T09:00:01Z The training of dancers and cultivation of choreographers, directors and audiences has been, and probably will continue to be, a painfully slow, two-steps-forward, one-step-back process, and a major venue dedicated to dance still eludes us. Baryshnikov, Diavolo, BodyTraffic and more: L.A.'s dance scene gears up for a breakout season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In the public imagination, as Mr. Vardi was painfully aware, the viola was considered merely a humble alto cog in the vast orchestral machine. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z Twitter has been dying a painfully slow death over the past five years, but I think Elon Musk is the perfect captain for sinking the ship. What I want to leave behind in 2023 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Both are painfully bad fits for their respective families and social circles; both struggle against not just assassins but bullying, emotional neglect and the crushing expectations of society. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Along the way, all kinds of men devalue her as she ages, but none more painfully than her soul mate. Review | FX’s ‘Fosse/Verdon’ is a kick and a shimmy and a shake. But mostly it’s a wallow. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Domino, who has not performed since 2007, is painfully shy and very reluctant to speak in public. ‘The Big Beat’ Celebrates Fats Domino, Rock’s Reclusive Giant 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The characters, except for Jane, feel like caricatures instead of people; the magic too often is obviously CGI; and the humor is wildly inconsistent — sometimes it’s hilarious, sometimes painfully flat. ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’: From abracadabra to zzz 2013-03-14T12:35:11Z The result is a painfully funny open house in which an eclectic bunch of driven New Yorkers runs roughshod over the Carvers' beloved home — and the couple's souls — as Lily artfully juggles ticking-clock offers. Review: Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman take 'Flight' in adult dramedy 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The imbalance is also painfully clear to the male tech executives in the Santa Clara Valley, who bitterly joke about living in “Man Jose” or “Manta Clara.” Public Offerings — High-Tech, High-Worth Bachelors 2012-06-06T20:07:35Z Hill painfully begs her lover to let her go, confused that her lover isn't measuring up to the words they promised her. "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" turns 25: A tribute to the album that refined hip-hop and feminism 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z But it takes a particularly unique lack of ego — one that’s painfully rare in modern American politics — to understand and to practice the ideal that a leader serves the people, not imposes his own desires. Mario Cuomo: Catholicism’s best defender of choice 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z I’ve always struggled with anxiety, and it made me painfully shy when I was young. Jenny Lawson on ‘Furiously Happy’ and when it is okay to call her ‘crazy’ 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Gout, expandable belts, diets, countless bottles of antacid tablets: Platt, the longtime food critic for New York magazine, dishes up a painfully honest account of what it’s like to eat for a living. New in Paperback: ‘Busted in New York’ and ‘Little Darlings’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s awkward, wrong and painfully laughable in equal measures. Motherlode Blog: Dear Best Buy, Don't Mock Santa 2011-12-05T17:00:08Z But the way “Big Brother” handled the death of a contestant’s grandfather offered a model of how reality shows should respond when real life painfully intrudes. “Big Brother” finally does something wright: The reality show handles a contestant’s grief with shocking sensitivity 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Lost in her neighborhood, he painfully limped around looking for her address until a red-haired young woman stopped her car and asked him if he was hurt. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z “I’m now painfully aware of what you do,” he said. ‘1917’ takes top honor at the Producers Guild Awards 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z For Dominique Peres, who joined Headless Horseman five years ago as a painfully shy teenager, mojo meant creating a character called Jacket, an exuberant take on a psycho killer. When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z At times painfully earnest, he introduced a new interactive feature called “The Daily Battle” by calling on viewers to tweet their thoughts about who was handling the Ukraine crisis better, #RFDObama or #RFDPutin. Is Ronan Farrow the (successful) anti-Piers Morgan? 2014-02-25T17:57:07Z Mays was joyous and electric, on the field and off, while Aaron was introverted, sometimes painfully so. Books Of the Times: ?The Last Hero,? Howard Bryant on Henry Aaron 2010-05-09T21:56:00Z The relationships are messy, at times petty and grim, painfully human. ‘The Cathedral’ Review: A Boy, a Home, a World 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The poem explores a partnership based on culturally quite different – and in some aspects painfully incompatible – conceptions of "love". You by John Haynes 2011-01-24T10:59:38Z Countering claims put forth by the right, Davis subtly asserted that the accounts are, unfortunately, painfully true. Wendy Davis: “My family would give anything” for abortion stories not to be true 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z From the muscular serenity of its opening bars, the Seventh is a triumph: its proportions are shapely, its themes striving and memorable, its moods convincingly trenchant or painfully vulnerable. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In another painfully honest acknowledgement that life would move on without her, Kate gave permission for pictures of her to eventually be confined to the boys’ bedroom once Singe met a new partner. Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps they sense the conflagration to come — the Civil War, whose tragic business would remain painfully unfinished more than 150 years later. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Yet the touring experience is portrayed as a grim, airless death march under fluorescent lights — lonely airport-tram rides, painfully awkward record-company grip-and-grins, inane interviews, live performances that punctuate but don’t alleviate the gloom. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z And she is painfully self-aware, her answers peppered with disclaimers, like excessive footnotes in an otherwise enjoyable read. Natalie Dormer: ‘Female empowerment shouldn’t be only about sexuality' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The track is a morality play of sorts about the dangers of drunk dialing your ex, something Drake does painfully well over a slow, woozy beat that mirrors his desperate state. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z Hemingway’s third wife, Elkin writes, “turned flânerie into testimony,” but she “pinged between extremes” of free-range activity and domesticity, often painfully. Take a walk on the Parisian side with Lauren Elkin's 'Flâneuse' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z His performance is far more profound than the staging, because the singing is painfully human and the idea is the sort of thing that seems far better in the perfection of a writer’s mind. 'The Leftovers' Season Finale Denied Us Answers, and It Felt Great 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But she is still a teenager, and talking to her on the phone makes that painfully clear. Belle Knox: “I’m a sexual person and that’s that” 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He’s not trying to be rude or insulting, Wilson is simply an unfiltered guy, painfully honest, easily bored, seemingly without ego or irony or any real sense of his celebrity. Inside Brian Wilson’s room: The famed Beach Boy opens up about mental illness, medication, manipulation and the movie about his life 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z I lost the argument painfully, and that humiliation has made me properly suspicious of film facts. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z The danger is never fully explained, but there appears to be a noxious cloud of toxins engulfing the Earth that painfully kills those exposed to it. ‘Silent Night’ Review: Waiting for the End of the World 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Comparisons with the urban present are also painfully literal. An Awkward Trek Through Time at the Penn Museum 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z This gifted painter, who was apparently influenced by Leonardo, and who created a handful of masterpieces in the early 1500s before dying painfully young, is one of the most mythified of all artists. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z Despite being published in 1960, “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains painfully relevant. The most important moment in books of 2016: The death of Harper Lee 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z But it is to the credit of this interpretation, which uses Thornton Wilder’s 1937 version, that you feel not only for the painfully enlightened wife but also for the bewildered husband in torment. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Portman's "Nina" unwraps her feet after pushing herself through a series of pirouettes to find her big toe nail painfully split and bloodied. 'Black Swan' opens Venice Film Festival 2010-09-01T17:08:00Z The 90-minute play, painfully moving, was described as a tenderly sketched portrait of life's challenges. Actress Judi Dench rules on stage despite age taking toll 2013-03-26T16:05:36Z Ms. Chiquet, who grew up in St. Louis, was “painfully shy” as a child and eventually escaped to Yale and then Paris. Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z With "Never Say Die," Jacoby encounters a topic with an emotional content known painfully well to millions of children caring for elderly parents. 'Never Say Die' examines marketing of the myth of a golden old age 2011-02-16T23:37:59Z The London Times struck a dissonant note, saying in its own review that the third installment was “clogged with researched data” and painfully slow in parts. Mantel unveils final volume in award-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The artist's quest, though, is always as much about the musical variety as it is his own soul – an authenticity that painfully eludes him. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z The second world war is on, the 12-year-old hero, Bill, and his lower-middle-class family are, as Boorman puts it in his script, "listening attentively to King George VI stuttering painfully through his Christmas message". Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z I had to leave the Royal Albert Hall halfway through a Prom because the strings sounded like dry percussion, the high woodwind screamed, and brass and tympani boomed painfully. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z More specifically, boringness seems to be relative: things are painfully dull to the degree that they’re less engaging than other things you might be doing. Bored? Now you know why 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Our history, as liberated women, is so short, but it feels so painfully long. Hillary Clinton’s Moment, and My Own 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Jacobi stressed Lear's split-second contradictions; Hicks takes a more linear approach, showing the character's journey towards a painfully acquired humanity. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z This is a lesson the Salvation Army is learning, rather painfully, this summer. Supporting gay rights is good for business 2012-07-04T23:00:00Z But the message is repeated ad infinitum; this documentary is painfully long for a project of this kind. Kathryn Bertine Examines Pro Cycling in ‘Half the Road’ 2014-04-18T00:14:39Z But I would argue that together, these works tell the history of anti-black racism in the United States as painfully, as eloquently, as disturbingly as words can. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z This was what he most liked: to give advice about the strange, small, things that can sit oddly close to a person’s heart, and sometimes press against it painfully. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z He's painfully shy, stares at his hands, his shoes, his sister, anywhere where he can forget there's an interviewer around. Michael Jackson: 'Magic is easy if you put your heart into it' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-20T12:40:54Z But the play’s overwhelming sense of the woman is: flippant, profane, superficial and painfully self-involved. | 'Woman Before a Glass': She Loved Herself, Yes, but She Also Loved Art 2011-05-20T02:05:01Z The spectacle of men in kerchief and boots hanging around a seedy 19th-century town waiting to shoot or be shot suddenly seemed painfully slow. A Chilling Way to Die at the Box Office: Make a Western 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z As this painfully small child stands before the attentive, visibly moved men, his tiny, malnourished frame — embodying such unspeakable loss — seems to fill the ward. ‘Beanpole’ Review: The War Has Ended. Their Fight Is Endless. 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Barnes said of his staging, “It takes a painfully ordinary little show and launches it into space.” Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z In an era of brash frontmen, they could sound like they were painfully shy yet simply unable to hold back. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z By these simple gestures, Limón — the Mexican-American artist who was a pillar of early modern dance — squeezed the tragedy of “Othello” into a taut, painfully human drama. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD Lichtenstein added in a more serious vein: "Where the Van Gogh is so emotional, and feverish, and spontaneous, my work is planned and premeditated, and painfully worked out." From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z Florida, for example, has banned the phrase “climate change” which has, in turn, created some painfully awkward moments for Florida officials. Jon Stewart does his best impression of America’s most delusional climate deniers 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z If it all feels painfully unresolved, it's hardly any wonder she has a love-hate relationship with the left. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z His painfully direct new album, “A Crow Looked at Me,” offers no easy conclusions. A heartbreaking tribute from a grieving husband 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z She’s raw and uncompromising, a remarkable combination of the blues in the language of hip-hop and R&B. Songs such as her finale “Ego” reveal Bourelly as self-assured and painfully self-aware. Maryland native Bibi Bourelly enchants at U Street 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The sudden advent of “Budapest Street Scene” forces Matt to reconnect with his father in ways that prove painfully enlightening. Review | A rediscovered masterpiece lost during WWII forces an actor to confront his past 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z And some of the dialogue is painfully puerile—but you can’t blame the new production for that; it’s equally painful when you read the libretto in the Library of America’s just-published two-volume “American Musicals.” An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z She could never reach her black son in the way other black people could, and we both became painfully aware of this. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But her otherwise disastrous Belgian sojourn inspired her to write her first novel, "The Professor," "a painfully obvious piece of wish-fulfillment" based on her relationship with Heger. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z With the sort of painfully funny irony for which Russo is famous, even as his mother trumpets her independence, she is packing up to accompany him to college on the other side of the country. Richard Russo's 'Elsewhere': unraveling the mystery of a troubled mother 2012-11-07T22:04:05Z “I’m amplifying the message. I’m painfully aware of that,” he told me. Perspective | Enter here to explore the alternate universe of right-wing media 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Looking at him from the side, his nose smushed painfully against the back of the mirror, you could tell that he was a man who would willingly suffer for his art. Paris Fashion Week: French Vogue?s 90th Birthday Is a Wild One 2010-10-01T19:50:00Z And Jules, painfully sophisticated, will tell Rue, who is occasionally a proxy for the horrified audience, that there are experiences she must abide in order to feel desired. “Euphoria” and the Flawed Art of Gen Z Prophesying 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z It was something of which she was by then painfully aware. Alice Trumbull Mason, Alone and With Friends 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z This is one of those so-called dilemmas of happiness that isn’t really a dilemma at all, because the answer’s so painfully obvious. Time or money? That’s a question of value | Oliver Burkeman 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Variants on “Let’s talk about it later” are practically a refrain in “Honeymoon,” his painfully acute 1998 film about two friends turned lovers. ‘The Unspeakable Act’: Talking about a sibling’s fixation 2013-07-11T22:57:09Z That this experiment will yield painfully mixed results is, in Guterl’s telling, a foregone conclusion. Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z That his new series is so painfully relevant is something he’s still processing. Lamorne Morris’s Week: Watching ‘First Things First’ and Absorbing ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z In one chapter we accompany Weir on home leave, and painfully witness his faltering attempts to describe his experiences to his father, who wants to hear nothing about his son's ordeal. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-29T21:55:11Z The saddle’s leather pinched painfully against my thighs. For visitors to Senegal’s Lac Rose, a closer look at the colorful lake’s salt harvest 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But I also grew up as a painfully dorky teenager in the '90s when a lot of popular culture — video games, comics, fashion — was heavily influenced by Japan. Iced green tea with cardamom is the perfect way to celebrate summer 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Hollywood is often an ugly place — not on the outside, perhaps, but certainly on the inside — and tales of nobility and selflessness, while they certainly do happen, are painfully rare. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z A world distant, and yet strangely, painfully reminiscent of our own. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z I’ve encountered this, not in monasteries, motels or bed-and-breakfasts but in a class of painfully hip boutique hotels that seem to think travelers want to shower in a space lit like Hernando’s Hideaway. The Getaway: Inside the Evolving Hotel Bathroom 2013-12-10T19:36:36Z "This historical melodrama is one painfully orchestrated scene after the other." God Loves Caviar serves up a hero for Greece 2012-11-20T16:17:00Z “There’s a shred of me left that feels like I’m a woman,” she says, as he painfully begs her to help him. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The federal minimum has remained at a painfully low $7.25 for a decade. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Remp says he was painfully shy for the first half of his life. Social gatherings can ease shyness 2010-12-06T15:44:00Z The topic is worthy, but the execution is painfully heavy-handed. Review: ‘Bitter Harvest’ Offers a Clunky Lesson in Ukrainian History 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The Walworth Farce in 2007 was a painfully claustrophobic piece about two sons, trapped in a flat in London, forced to re-enact the circumstances in which they left their native Cork. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z In this painfully resonant story we see the absurd fragility of our own humanity. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z As always, Mair was calm, empathetic even, but also painfully direct, saying things such as: "Let me ask you about a barefaced lie" and "You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?" Eddie Mair: a rising BBC star 2013-03-25T19:07:00Z It’s all very heady and voluptuous, but it’s also painfully superficial. Review: ‘The Summer of Sangaile,’ Evanescent and Too Good to Be True 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z While we all love to watch the painfully awkward encounters of the puberty-stricken preteens on Netflix's "Big Mouth," sometimes the most relatable moments stem from the raunchy Hormone Monsters. "Big Mouth" spinoff about Hormone Monsters adds to its monstrous voice cast 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z My romantic relationships are often so painfully fraught that I sometimes think it might be best to avoid them altogether. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Approaching history through the lens of a species pushed to the brink of extinction makes watching part one, “Blood Memory,” feel as painfully uncomfortable as it does important. With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Schwartz weathered painfully dismissive reviews to see his shows prosper and live on for decades in syndication. Sherwood Schwartz, Creator of Gilligan and the Bradys, Dies at 94 2011-07-12T18:54:51Z For people in Romania, however, much of what is shown onscreen is painfully familiar. Since the Oscar-Nominated ‘Collective,’ Much and Little Has Changed 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z But with the oncoming vacancy of Alzheimer's in her mother's brain, their strife begins to lessen; Solnit painfully traces the way the parent-child roles reverse and she becomes a mother to her mother. The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review 2013-06-07T06:30:01Z Stories about this kind of crime often focus on the dead girl — to be painfully reductive, again — and what she means. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The New England winter feels painfully heavy, and overwhelmingly quiet. Seventeen Days on a Locked Ward 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z This is the horrible inequality baked into our world, one that must be stumblingly and painfully taught to every successive generation of girls. Being female is a wound that never heals: How Ani Bezzerides emerged as the real hero of “True Detective” 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z In other words, you can be honest–painfully so–about the condition of Detroit without simply using it as a vast, open-air amphitheater of ruin. TV Weekend: Low Winter Sun and Detroit as Urban Desert 2013-08-09T13:55:05Z It was, not unlike everything that surrounded it, ravishingly — even painfully — lyrical, forcing Hope into his highest register while Wu’s piano rustled beneath. Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z It is a tense, sometimes awkward and often painfully weird experience, and it all happens within the walls of someone else’s house. Where to meet real Americans: Touring presidential homes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z To me, she wasn’t an imbecile, but emblematic of these impossible standards, ones that Zellweger bore with painfully apologetic brightness. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Within 15 minutes, it was abundantly, painfully clear that we hadn’t a thing in common. I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z “It’s just so painfully cliché. People wonder what’s wrong with Hollywood. Stop wondering.” Former Disney Chief Clarifies "Beautiful, Funny Women" Comment 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The facial hair works along with the soundtrack, the cars and the clothes to conjure a 1980 that viewers who were around back then may find uncannily, even painfully realistic. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z I say that not so much as a judgment of its quality but because its vision of the years it flash-forwarded to — from 2017 to 2048 — is, in retrospect, painfully optimistic. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Reunion: Isolate Yo’ Self 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Not bad enough to be fun, nor good enough to be Southern Gothic, this flat film is just painfully mediocre. Nic Cage's "Grand Isle" falls short of the Southern Gothic crazy it promises 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z One, all spots and bones, balanced painfully on a pillow he’d brought along from home. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z At 31 and taking Foundation 1, however, he said he was painfully aware that “everyone else was 18.” Hoop Dreams of His Own Design 2010-12-10T16:55:00Z They have an ear for painfully realistic situations and dialogue that yields unforced, low-key comedy. Cyrus Review: The Year's Scariest Romantic Comedy 2010-06-17T19:45:00Z At about 9:30 p.m. — painfully early for a Thursday night on the city’s club scene — the audience was asked to leave. March 12, 2020: The Night the City Sighed to Sleep 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Mount Rushmore is painfully complex — much like America itself. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Given that it's based on the true story of a man with polio who spends most of his time in an iron lung, "The Sessions" is not as painfully heavy-handed as it might sound. Review: `Sessions' tells feel-good, low-key tale 2012-10-15T22:38:11Z They make for a painfully contrasting montage—beginning with the effervescent tale of their meeting, thanks to her friend the playwright Marc Connelly, who brought her to Scott and Zelda’s apartment. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Michael died four years ago, bravely, painfully of a facial cancer, enduring surgery and radiotherapy, and he wrote about this too in his inspiring last book, The Enduring Melody. My hero: Michael Mayne 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z |
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