And his jeremiad about the budget deficit isn't so much wrong as painfully familiar.

It is a painfully familiar scene for any grown child who dies a little every time he says goodbye to his parents.

She looked painfully familiar, and after an instant, Anwyn realized why.

"It was frustrating," he said, in what is becoming a painfully familiar refrain.

If so, the concept of "range anxiety", for example, will be painfully familiar.

Painfully familiar and wrenchingly true, these stories hit us right where we live: alone.

The opening frame was painfully familiar to Jack by now.

My 8-year-old daughter and I found this scenario painfully familiar, though for different reasons.

May, her husband, sister, children and grandchildren were painfully familiar with being in a shelter following a storm.

The ending was painfully familiar for the Eagles, who have lost three games by a total of 5 points.