That, this painfully honest work tells us, is the best these parents can hope for.

His eyes had been brown, like Ban's, and painfully honest.

Other blog entries are painfully honest about the drawbacks of obesity.

Painfully honest, his unquestioned integrity made him the leading spokesman for college football during this period.

His prose can be crude, but he is painfully honest about his role in a game the chosen few play.

Painfully honest, he also did not want to dissemble.

Her book is painfully honest, but a very moving and informative account.

"Going the Distance" is his posthumous memoir, sometimes playful, often sober, always painfully honest.

A moving and painfully honest account of a mother's struggle to come to terms with the death of her baby.

"I didn't have much expectation, much ambition, to be painfully honest," he said.