The phrase "almost painstakingly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is done with great care and effort, but not to the fullest extent of being painstaking.
Example: "She almost painstakingly organized every detail of the event, ensuring nothing was overlooked."
Alternatives: "nearly meticulously" or "almost with great effort".
Such ironic stabs at the outworn attitudes of an old Asia hand ("What has become of this country? Why can't we get anything done any more?") are almost painstakingly balanced by a troubled self-awareness.
For me, pretty much everything about the show — the pretentious lowercased logo; the setting in pre-sixth-borough-glory Philadelphia; the almost painstakingly unfamous cast; the difficulty in figuring out whom to crush on and whom to relate to — did not compute, and for some big reasons.
Yet Still Alice has a controlled, almost painstakingly pristine surface that is seldom, if ever, disrupted by anything too messy.
Deploying a combination of diplomatic charm, patience and crates of imported whisky, he set about painstakingly negotiating the release of detainees, almost all of whom were from the Chilean left.
After stopping me almost every bar to painstakingly observe details of the score that I had missed, he said "Jeremy, you really need to make this piece your own".
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), other state and federal agencies, medical examiners, a massive effort that will take almost a year to painstakingly recreate the plane and see if the needle in the haystack can, in fact, be found.
The production is slow (glacially slow), painstakingly deliberate and almost clinical in its retelling of favorite Poe stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
At first glance it looks gauzy enough to blow away in a heavy wind, but according to members of the architectural team who were working at the site, it weighs 150 tons and has been painstakingly fashioned from almost 9,000 steel tubes that form an interior web, over which are a layer of glass and, on top of that, a shimmering anodized gold surface.
Between the settlements lie twining pathways and almost surreally-terraced cliffs, a painstakingly chiselled landscape of gardens, vineyards and fields.
Whatever mythology the series had painstakingly put together is almost immediately jettisoned.
A coherent picture of sub-atomic physics, known as the Standard Model, has been painstakingly put together, and almost all the observations seem to fit into it.
