The shaven-headed recluse was painfully shy but the opposite online.

I'm also painfully shy; the two things don't always go together, but in my case they do.

This documentary tells the story of how a painfully shy 19-yearold recorded an album that became the biggest selling instrumental album of all time.

I was painfully shy and got picked on a lot.

These authors are often talented, painfully shy and barely able to function socially.

The reforms are making painfully slow progress and fiscal targets have consistently been missed.

Then, the argument changed: to who could use the single household computer, with its painfully slow internet connection.

Progress over the past 20 years has been painfully slow, new research shows.

The coronavirus business interruption loans scheme, which offered guarantees of 80 per cent, had proved painfully slow.

On almost every front the progress has been painfully slow, particularly when it comes to turning the rhetoric on infrastructure investment into action.