painfully

“Noid” was dense and menacing, Tyler’s flow somewhere between a growl and a yowl; “Darling, I” was light and whimsical but almost painfully yearning too.

The insight that Burana speaks of is painfully omnidirectional, and we can also never unsee what we now know about some of the people closest to us — or the agenda they're willing to support.

Perhaps even more painfully, teachers and students now discuss — if not openly then amongst themselves — who would risk their lives to try to defend their class from a shooter.

The hallowed New York Yankees stood frozen in their dugout, stripped of their aura and bludgeoned at their essence, painfully demolished pinstripe by pinstripe.

"My experience has made me painfully aware that there is so much talent in these communities - you just need to open the door a crack" to give people a chance, he said.