Painfully in example sentence

In the absence of anything like an explanation for this guy's horrible behavior, we're given endlessly repeated clips of Kahn walking around and painfully long - supposedly contemplative - shots of his soulless buildings.Actually, some of the buildings are interesting but the thrust of the film asks us to think about the guy himself.

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China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization-state, together.

Early in the morning, when the station toilets were opened, she got painfully to her feet, and made her way over to them.

And it very slowly, over a few minutes, sort of painfully goes up, and then it gains momentum and it looks like it's almost about to fall.

Why? Well because, if you miss your flight by three minutes, it is painfully easy to imagine that you could have made different decisions that would have led to a better outcome.

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