Court investigators, whose work has often been painfully slow, have also managed to speed up indictments as the body of evidence has grown.
And whenever he managed to painfully extract some nugget of wisdom, he would cut and polish it like a precious stone before resuming the search.
Two of them, Li Xurong, 49, and her husband, are both painfully weak, barely managing -- the wife with boils and mouth sores that make swallowing excruciating, the husband with headaches and high fevers.
Ever since, he has had to communicate through his computer, which is painfully slow, so it's ironic that he has still managed to become one of the great science popularisers of our age.
The dentist slowly, painfully, amusingly reveals how much he knows, but Mr. Stoppard hadn't yet managed to make the themes of jealousy and revenge equal the clever twists of dialogue.
Disclosures that Newark schools operating for the last four years under the state's strict financial and educational control -- managed to amass a $58 million budget deficit are exposing ills that are about to be painfully dissected by the State Legislature.
He even managed to make the now-infamous Wifi glitch amusing and entertaining (if a bit odd), rather than painfully awkward.
According to the British Film Institute, "Press Gang managed to be perhaps the funniest children's series ever made and at the same time the most painfully raw and emotionally honest.
Lou managed to film the protests and the crackdown with minimal, allusive methods which leave much to the imagination; it's their devastating long-term effects that he films in painfully full detail.
Between novels and other books, Breslin managed to crank out four or five columns a week, most memorably for the New York Daily News, a publication that still exists but is now painfully thin.
