Charles is known to be frustrated by his role -- "He is actually an unemployed individual, which says something about the state of the royal family," Mr. Rogers woundingly but accurately said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Follies" reminded us forcefully, woundingly, why people need fantasy: Life in the temporal sphere is unpredictable, a bad marriage with destiny. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In her woundingly funny soliloquies she becomes a one-woman wrestling match between her passionate and practical selves. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He could be woundingly cruel and manipulative, but so transparent in his machinations that people seemed to find this quality almost endearing, as if he couldn't help himself. ❋ Kimmelman, Michael (2007)
Every rug, picture, ornament, and chair was in its place—woundingly so. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
It is surely only an Austenian extreme that brings the novel to its moral crisis on Box Hill, when in two lines Emma wittily and woundingly acts out her impatience with the garrulous Miss Bates. ❋ Unknown (2000)
"They cannot work well if they find themselves subjected to stereotypical analyses, being woundingly pigeon-holed either as unreconstructed reactionaries of the old order, or as sycophantic appointees of the new." ❋ Unknown (1999)
The grief that rocked him was deep, and private, and woundingly intense. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1988)
But none of us can be expected to sit silent in front of Lawrence's woundingly personal accusations. ❋ Ricks, Christopher (1964)
What she implied was woundingly true of that old self of mine which had so recently come under my observation and censure. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Then all of a sudden she saw that again and yet more woundingly his attention had wandered. ❋ Unknown (1907)
He had no pride about him, I was told; he would sit down with any man; and it was somewhat woundingly implied that I was indebted to this peculiarity for my own acquaintance with the hero. ❋ Unknown (1898)
I called on our cell phone from our hotel room or from sidewalk cafes in the woundingly lovely French spring. everything hurt. ❋ Unknown (2011)
More so, because Forrest isn't just an ex-cutter, ex-bulimic, ex-crazy; she's also the ex-girlfriend of the Irish libertine and Hollywood actor Colin Farrell, who is only and woundingly referred to here as "GH" for "gypsy husband." ❋ REVIEWED BY KATE CARRAWAY (2011)
Daly is imperious and sometimes woundingly funny as this queenly, flawed, swaggering artist who thrilled the world of opera with her raw and vivid singing. ❋ Henry Hitchings (2012)
