What is "achingly"

Usage examples of "achingly".

He had said that the first time, she remembered achingly, and even though she had wanted him she had still been a little afraid.

She glanced round the room again, achingly trying not to focus on Robert and yet helpless to stop herself from focusing on him, from wondering whom he was with.

Suddenly, achingly, she longed to be back with Digby, back home, safe in the security of Wenscote where she could be herself.

A dwarf choreographer and an aging diva and a little boy with a wooden horse named Bloody Hell and a beautiful, bad-tempered, achingly tender ballerina who made love as though she were both dancing and fighting for her life.

LostCon Meet the Pros Party, those same eyes, that same gaze, that same achingly wholehearted sincerity, as she had told him that he was one of the Just, one of the unknowing secret moral pillars upholding the world.

The contact with a psychopomp is so achingly personal for a Necromance.

It was a slice of life that screamed adolescence redux, but since she had missed spending those years with him, she found the experience achingly pleasant.

Inside Lamb House she wondered how a mystery in which several people have achingly endless, convoluted conversations over tea and biscuits, all of them knowing there was that body hi the solarium but, with their Jamesian sensibilities, making such oblique references that no one knew if anyone knew if he or she knew.

His dark hair spilled unbound over his shoulders, and as she gazed at him he gave that achingly familiar lionlike toss of his mane, and her hormones roared in response.

He stepped out into the open, where his bright white shirt reflected the afternoon sunlight like an overexposed photograph, or a space in a drawing, erased, left painfully unfinished, achingly blank, its tails hanging down over the flowered fabric of his shorts.

One of the other brides, youngest daughter of the king of some tiny desert land on the southern edge of Xis, had loaned her a beautifully illustrated book of poetry by the famous Bazu Jev Qinnitan had read some of it and enjoyed it very muchhis descriptions of sheepherders in the and mountains who lived so close to the sky they called themselves Cloud People spoke of a freedom and simplicity that seemed achingly attractive to her.

I went achingly back to sleep, but their owners seemed to make no attempt to break in to get them back.

Then she hired an old-school terraformer -- little more than a plumber -- to add one of those achingly slow rivers and falls, popular on every low-gravity world in the Realm.

Flapper broke the water into glowing ripples as she fed on drifting weed and occasional fish, he stared achingly at the sky wherever it was clear of cloud and wondered about voyages across space.

The whispers of his nightmare had hot teeth which stripped his skin and flesh achingly slowly so that he died the most painful death possible.