In a less expert production, the breast-thumping rhetoric would be painfully evident.

And indeed, the desperation for food is becoming painfully evident.

In this nearly nude state, the balance of the damage was painfully evident.

It is painfully evident that $1 is no longer enough.

In England, meanwhile, the consequences of failing to take action sooner were becoming painfully evident.

New Yorkers like to mention casually, as if it were painfully evident, that we have the best jazz in the world.

With over 900 now dead, the futility of politics-by-war is painfully evident.

This deficiency was made painfully evident by a serious environmental disaster.

She'd made that painfully evident from the moment she first came on board, and the situation had gotten no better since.

That missing confidence was painfully evident when the head coach and I gathered the kids for a cheer before the first game.