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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.
I nervously peered over the side of the bed to see what had befallen my fallen sister and saw that she had landed painfully on her hands and knees on all fours on the ground.
I'd like you to imagine, just for a moment, that your eyelashes grew inwards instead of outwards, so that every time you blinked, they would scrape the front of your eyeballs, damaging the corneas, so that slowly and painfully, you went blind.
I'm painfully aware that there has been an increase in discrimination against Muslims in recent years in countries like the U.K. and the U.S., and that too is a matter of grave concern, but I firmly believe that telling these counter-stereotypical stories of people of Muslim heritage who have confronted the fundamentalists and been their primary victims is also a great way of countering that discrimination.
Guns and drugs are emotive issues, and as we've painfully learned in the gun referendum campaign in Brazil, sometimes it's impossible to cut through the emotions and get to the facts.
Most people would lose bladder control before this happens, but in very rare cases, such as when as a person can't sense the need to urinate, the pouch can rupture painfully requiring surgery to fix.
These headaches increase the tenderness of the pericranial muscles, which then painfully pulse with blood and oxygen.
As I started this project, I was very painfully aware of two things.
Overcoming that fear requires guts, and as you all know, gutsy politicians are painfully rare.
Gradually, and painfully, I came to realize that I had been just as judgmental of those who had sent me hate mails as they had been of me.
I still remember that day painfully.
So at em speeds, physical travel feels really painfully slow, so most em cities are self-sufficient, most war is cyber war, and most of the rest of the earth away from the em cities is left to the humans, because the ems really aren't that interested in it.
And then we learned painfully late in the game that the word "appreciation" is code for getting paid to participate.
Here, robot, process this painfully idiotic report.
That's been made painfully evident by natural disasters throughout 2017.
Well, it turns out that it's become painfully obvious that the fundamental assumptions that undergird neoliberal economic theory are just objectively false, and so today first I want to take you through some of those mistaken assumptions and then after describe where the science suggests prosperity actually comes from.
For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.
Only this time, my investigator friends, the game is painfully real.
Hundreds of thousands of people were exterminated, slowly and painfully.
It's simply the painfully uninspired name given to everyone who checks off the box "none" when Pew Research asks them about their religious affiliation.
The central premise of this movie was basically a bunch of stereotypical black people sitting around a barbershop exchanging painfully unfunny repartee.
Days of Heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films I have ever seen.
In spite of a strong central performance by Frank Nasso, the Prince, this disjointed film wanders aimlessly from scene to scene, painfully disintegrating into hash.
Painfully unfunny and unwatchable...even for a TV movie!
Most of the story is told in a painfully slow and droning manner by an incredibly dull scientist.
While the film has one redeeming feature, namely some striking shots e.g. the shot of the sheep hanging from the tree, the scene of the funeral procession on the raft, or the scene of the boats leaving the village (which seemed influenced by the scene when the warships approach in the fantastic "Fellini Satyricon"), these were more photographic than cinematographic, and would have been better appreciated hung on a wall in an art gallery than embedded in a painfully slow-paced film that comes in at a whopping 162 minutes and suffers from terrible dialogue, extremely poor character development, over-acting, uninspired symbolism and heavy stylisation.
The dialog is so painfully scripted, it's hard to sit through, and if there were any jokes in the movie, I missed them.
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