Example Sentences

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Then came the reviews, many of which praised her commanding performance while stingingly rebuking the movie as an exploitation of Monroe and for its unrelenting bleakness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

In one scene, a lifetime of heartbreak, emotional distance and hard-won resilience is captured in the simple act of receiving a stingingly careless birthday gift.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022

An uncertain fate awaits the most bracing and contrarian writers: Will the insights they offer still come across as stingingly original if the disillusion they so often recommend becomes commonplace?

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020

De Wilde's version places the Austen tale squarely where the work belongs — in a world that is simultaneously over the top and stingingly real.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2020

A dull endless pain in my gut that wouldn’t go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green