The phrase "painfully incomplete" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is lacking or insufficient in a way that causes discomfort or frustration. Example: Jane's report was painfully incomplete, with important data and analysis missing, making it difficult for the team to make informed decisions.
Desire is real, these songs said, but society's remedy for it is fake, leading the seeker of satisfaction on a painfully incomplete quest.
What we might learn from the decades-long (and painfully incomplete) experience of desegregation is the need to deploy multiple efforts to address a chronic problem.
Abe Krash, 75, who worked on Mr. Gideon's case and remains a partner at Arnold & Porter, said the court's unanimous decision in Gideon was important but, in retrospect, painfully incomplete.
The deadlock on charges so central to the case frustrated other members of the jury, raised the possibility of a retrial on those charges and resulted in a painfully incomplete resolution for the 25-year-old victim, a second-grade teacher who gasped and buckled in the courtroom when the mistrial was announced.
Digital cameras were painfully incomplete before online photo processing came along, because most owners aren't content with the print quality they can get from their basic inkjet printers.
Yet considering the painfully incomplete state in which the PlayBook shipped, RIM might do well to consider the early adopters and hackers as their most loyal and dedicated customers.
Jack is blown apart in an explosion, but painfully reconstitutes from an incomplete pile of body parts; Gwen and Ianto escape and later rescue Jack from a concrete grave.
They use the technology to counter and contain whatever they do not like about it: filtering, painfully slow connections and an ambitious but so far incomplete intranet project.
Sometimes even on incomplete passes.PB The quarterback might have changed, but for Dallas the story was painfully familiar.
However, everyone with an interest in this topic is painfully aware that what gets in the way of the process is that the information is usually incomplete and the textual reporting is error prone.
Progress is painfully slow.
