The breathless excitement she had felt all day was painfully apparent to the cleric.

And there lies a problem, one that became painfully apparent this summer.

The scarcity of jobs, affordable housing and social services are painfully apparent.

The long, precipitous drop in our fortunes has been painfully apparent.

He stopped, but it was painfully apparent he wanted to say more.

That fact would become painfully apparent to those responsible.

Elmo had made his displeasure painfully apparent in a few private conversations.

This became painfully apparent during the first six months of 1987 as the Brazilian economy tumbled anew into crisis.

The defense is simply not the same without him, a point made painfully apparent last year.

But the limits of his approach to the job have become painfully apparent.