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Punishingly meaning
So as to punish. | In a way that is tiring or exhausting.
Example sentences (6)
Doing work down there is a punishingly slow process, and if the single crane breaks, everything comes to a standstill.
Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, punishingly high food prices are inflicting particular hardship on the world’s poor.
It’s an almost punishingly chaotic film, though each line of overlapping dialogue and jittery camera move is carefully orchestrated.
London theatre, the flagship of the UK’s £10.8bn arts sector, was hit punishingly hard by Lockdown 1; its revenue streams and its raison d’être — liveness — cut off, its infrastructure financially draining, its mostly freelance workforce hung out to dry.
But instead of luxurious palaces with dresses gilded of the finest materials a couturier could offer, these were punishingly severe fascist uniforms for the millennial aristocrat.
But what reviewers identified, and what accounts for the novel’s success, is that its gaze is not outward, as is the case in a certain sense with “To the End of the Land,” but unrelentingly and punishingly inward.