How To Use Painstaking In A Sentence

Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
Probably the most painstaking part of the job is the scrupulous documentation process.
For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head. Archive 2006-01-01

Later in that same decade, he began developing the concept of sound on sound recording, first painstakingly overdubbing part after part on a 78 rpm record cutting machine, and then later on magnetic tape.
They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples.
Youth movements are charted in painstaking detail. Times, Sunday Times
Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
It is a historical document showing the author's painstaking research and narrative skills.
The building has been painstakingly restored to all its former elegance.
Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
The concrete base of two sheds that have been removed in the back garden were being dug out yesterday afternoon as part of a painstaking search. Times, Sunday Times
The top ten resorts guide will be also be published on the Internet, based on even more painstaking investigations into what seafronts offered to visitors.
So began a painstaking operation to replace bolts and an expansion joint on the carriageway taking traffic out of the city, which was completed in 1969.
The sources are complementary in identifying and locating toponyms, still a painstaking task, but immensely valuable for any study of settlement patterns.
When so much painstaking medical research has been done, it may seem astounding to most of us that the doctors are still baffled by the cause. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
Even the ‘archaic’ epodes are written in a style of painstaking elegance.
The police cast doubt on this story by painstaking work with the records of mobile phone companies.
With the painstaking dignity of an all-day drunk, he said: Day of Honey
The event had been planned with painstaking attention to detail.
(The observed precession is really 5270 ''/century, but a painstaking calculation to subtract the disturbances from all the other planets gives the value of 43 ''.) Forces
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
With this in mind, he painstakingly replanted currajongs taken from the bush to shade his driveway.
His study of tsarist censorship was a quest at once painstaking, costly and without visible reward. Times, Sunday Times
This meant that the ‘total synthesis’ would have produced a mixture of isomers requiring painstaking separation.
The piano and the billiards table have been painstakingly restored. Times, Sunday Times
It took months of painstaking research to write the book.
What follows is a painstaking analysis of the grammar of war, the way an army thinks, and what happens to the cities the author has so beautifully described in his other books when they get in the way of generals.
A casual viewer might think that the artist has painstakingly built up these colorful topographies with paint alone.
A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray. California Dreamgirl
It took almost a decade of meticulous and painstaking work to empty the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
The whole game took about an hour to play, and was all painstakingly illustrated in the Potter style - all pastels and anthropomorphic woodland creatures, which is fine if you like that sort of thing.
The theme was written in 1963, but developed almost beyond recognition over weeks of painstaking work with tapes and tone generators.
Chris described in painstaking detail what had happened.
What seems a random pattern of painstakingly rendered cuts in the paper is in fact a nine-times repeating pattern made from a rubber matrix print containing the Pollock-like marks.
Earlier cops had warned they could find more dead amid the painstaking operation to remove the stricken police chopper from the scene. The Sun
Through painstaking efforts, he put together a bicycle made of bamboo, abundantly available in his state.
Together they begin the prolonged and painstaking peace process. Times, Sunday Times
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Cross-fertilising a pure white hyacinth with a blue seedling, followed by painstaking years of bulb harvesting and reselecting for the darkest colour, have resulted in the black bloom.
He was right: the drums were beat perfect, the ululations from women's groups were in tune and the range of outfits had clearly been painstakingly constructed over some time.
This achievement is the fruit of a decade of collective measured thought and painstaking preparation before construction began in 2001.
He painstakingly annotates and takes notes from the books and gets information downloaded from the Internet.
This long, painstaking process must not be derailed. Times, Sunday Times
It lays out in painstaking detail how to replace the garbage bags, crush the plastic bottles, and separate the trash between burnable and nonburnable items while picking out paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles and cans for possible recycling. Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
If your computer dies, your painstakingly assembled music collection dies with it. Times, Sunday Times
I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
Similarly, in 1795 J M Good, a physician who carried out a painstaking examination of diseases of prisons and poorhouses, wrote, ‘No medicine is much more advantageous than the daily changing of linen.’
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
It presents the results of research on surviving prints, based on a painstaking physical examination of the paper used, watermarks and typefaces.
Forensic officers will continue to carry out a painstaking search of the first chamber over the weekend. The Sun
Not every car there had been painstakingly prepared to concours condition. Times, Sunday Times
A doctor painstakingly threads a thin tube deep into his sedated patient's heart.
French Revolution was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
Each unit has little wrinkles at its lip from the paper painstakingly pasted over the cardboard structure.
Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch. USATODAY.com - Nets sweep road set from Pistons
The hair she painstakingly had dyed blonde was up in a chignon.
A wad of linen is painstakingly molded into the precise shape of a feline nose.
But the methodology is painstakingly punctilious due to the heavy editing involved.
Much of the main building was covered by one of the collapsed walls, making a comprehensive search of the site a painstakingly slow process.
The foxy-coloured glazes had been applied with painstaking attention to detail.
It's a magnificent piece of work, created by the islanders in over 30,000 painstaking hours.
On the album, the guitar picking is so precise that it demands that every painstakingly plucked note be closely listened to.
What be is is mystical force incentive people fought so painstakingly?
Where I see a politician bestriding the British political scene, he sees a lonely figure, in constant danger of a painstaking alliance fracturing apart.
This painstaking process involved deciphering the handwriting of the census enumerators.
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
One is left with a strong appreciation for the unique gift that allows stop-motion animators to perform such slow, painstaking work without going crazy.
With painstaking, cold, analytical skill, Abramov emptied the secret places of Hillsden's mind of all previous loyalties. THE ENDLESS GAME
From the ridiculous to the sublime, freaky commercialism to painstaking research. Times, Sunday Times
I take my bottle and make another painstaking walk through the crowd to an empty bar stool, throwing my bag down on the bench in front of me.
Bringing such a collection to life took months of painstaking research and development.
The men in suites will look at Eragon's failure and proclaim that fantasy is dead, without ever once considering that maybe John Malkovich is a poor substitute for Ian McKellen and that cheaply CGI'd Dragons are no match for the decade plus of painstaking, loving, obsession that went into bringing Tolkien to the screen. Archive 2006-12-01
What recommends his book above all else is its painstaking concentration on what is truly significant in O'Connor's symbolism.
And anyway, as realclimate. org has painstakingly shown, the real problem with the book is not 'contrarianism' - it's that the factual underpinnings of its 'contrary argument' are easily proven to be wrong. Discover Blogs
Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
Although he prepared and executed his works painstakingly like the old masters, he wanted his works of art look like machine made.
Thousands of acres are painstakingly planted in tidy orchards, trellises and rows.
Others have taken solace from the slow but painstaking progress towards rebuilding the ground zero site. Times, Sunday Times
The Church's autonomy from political power was asserted gradually and painstakingly, but irreversibly, despite the recurring waves of caesaropapism, fundamentalism, and anticlericalism, becoming one of the main pillars of modern Western civilization. Tea at Trianon
All this requires much arduous, painstaking, and sometimes confusing work.
Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
His technique was mezzotint, the hybrid drypoint technique in which a texture is applied to a prepared etching plate, and the image is painstakingly burnished in.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
I dissected preserved larvae into their component appendages and painstakingly traced each detail.
In January this year steeplejacks climbed 100 ft above the minister floor and painstakingly removed sections, to assess what needed to be done and how much it might cost.
Sebald ' s mesmerizing blend of fiction, encyclopedic detail and travelogue in " Austerlitz " (2001) and " The Emigrants " (1993) — both grounded in the experiences of Jewish children in the Holocaust — Ms. Franklin finds a painstaking strategy for restoring people and places to life. Trying to Show the Unknowable
There are no tasks which require the conscientious and painstaking effort of sedulous monographers.
On his return he painstakingly reproduced the Wyoming plains on the curved walls of the diorama.
The work had been done with painstaking attention to detail.
Northrop, however, managed to crystalize three digestive enzymes, pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin, and by painstaking experiments shown them to be pure proteins. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
Instead, they harvest their own, store it and then prepare it by hand, a painstaking process that includes washing away the resinlike saponin coating that protects the seeds. NYT > Home Page
Alongside skulls, bones and fruit he singles out careworn possessions, like a lone battered trainer or an acoustic guitar, and painstakingly chisels them in whole or in part in pale limewood. The Guardian World News
You see we still insist on making our handmade bricks in the same painstaking way we've always made them.
This will be a painstaking process so is likely to take some time. The Sun
Only inches high, they are painstakingly crafted out of foreign newspapers available in London.
Students in Sheffield are to bring some of Yorkshire's most historic ruins back to life on the Internet with painstaking recreations of what they once would have looked like.
The painstakingly crafted detail has always been the essence of a Grimshaw building.
Aesthetically, it stands apart from its Western counterparts, for each Indian piece is painstakingly handcrafted.
It lays out in painstaking detail how to replace the garbage bags, crush the plastic bottles, and separate the trash between burnable and nonburnable items while picking out paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles and cans for possible recycling. Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy
Did you actually think that there's someone employed to painstakingly think up playlists for radio stations and write them up by hand or something?
Youth movements are charted in painstaking detail. Times, Sunday Times
We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man, -- making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances. Beacon Lights of History
By high school, I was a fan of large, baggy dresses and wore a thick mask of painstakingly applied makeup to distract from my pear-shaped body.
The work involves painstakingly searching through files and financial information looking for wrongdoing.
Investigators were yesterday beginning the painstaking task of identifying the cause of the disaster.
If you've ever seen the basic cels of a cartoon from Disney or Warner Bros., you'll recognize the painstaking detail that has gone into these scenes.
It has been a painstaking process, requiring a lot of detailed work from a lot of people. Computing
The Chilean artist, who works in Mexico City, offered small framed stitched objects that painstakingly replicate fragments of his own clothing.
Even supposing that I have the most "modern" (that is, merely the latest) criticism to hand, and even supposing that by some omniscience of mine I can tell which is "the best" (that is, which part of it has really proved most ample, most painstaking, most general, and most sincere), even then the phrase fatally condemns me. First and Last
His images are painstakingly built up layer by fine layer with resin and paint. Times, Sunday Times
For this is the main lesson from the many examples of failure so painstakingly dissected here. Times, Sunday Times
Against the identity-sapping fuzziness of corporate life, Wallace pits a painstaking particularity - but detail is both the delight and downfall of these stories.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Robin painstakingly removed the silverskin and I mixed up a rub. The Superbowl party that didnt happen......
Then Mr Dilworth began the painstaking task of reeling them in.
Such damage might not be easily visible from a distance, but it is surprising how often a large number of small scratches ruin the look of a painstakingly crafted piece of jewellery.
Perhaps the ultimate in retromania is Girl Talk, a one-man band whose party tunes are composed entirely of dozens of painstakingly collaged samples from pop history. When the Music Stopped
They painstakingly isolated more than 6,000 virgin females from which they collected pheromone chemicals.
The task in Kosovo is dangerous, painstaking and expensive. Canada's Actions Against Landmines
Shane Dow, a crew member, stands back to admire his handiwork after painstakingly filling in Mickey Mouse's ears.
It's not often, after all, that a "new" whisky is a painstaking recreation, from flavor down to the label design, of a whisky that was buried in ice for a full century by the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. Tony Sachs: Drinking The Past: New Spirits Recreate Vintage Tastes
Painstaking accuracy was not absolutely essential to the needs of agriculture, however.
Painstakingly made of molded leather subtly colored with many layers of thin acrylic glazes, they have patinas that suggest burl, bronze, marble, ceramic, cloth or even flesh.
Citing Bauhaus influence, especially the paintings of Josef Albers, she executed her works by hand with painstaking precision.
Then, he painstakingly whittles each one a 10-inch handle with a kitchen knife, and waits till dark.
The application is painstaking and meticulous. Times, Sunday Times
The letter's painstakingly constructed diplomatic language continued to cause translation problems, even after both sides had agreed it.
White granite boulders were loosened from the surrounding hills, split using water saturated wooden stakes, and painstakingly shaped into building blocks.
Abraham Lincoln was called a poltroon, a hypocrite, because he was deliberate, painstaking and cautious about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
Forensic officers will continue to carry out a painstaking search of the first chamber over the weekend. The Sun
Although one has to admire the painstaking attention to detail in keeping the scaffold holes.
The volume was painstakingly compiled by hand in the 16th century by Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator, the man believed to have coined the term "atlas" for a collection of maps. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Low-intensity warfare of this kind does not bring quick results and much of the work is low-key, repetitive and painstaking.
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
But the dead giveaway on almost any of these fraudulent emails is not the painstakingly simulated appearance or the sophisticated coding, but the grammar!
However, all her painstaking attention to detail ended up being slightly derailed.
But here it is, chaotically shot and narrated by the culprits themselves and painstakingly reassembled. This week's new films
All that was left of the 1667 Brick Chapel in Maryland's first Colonial capital were its huge, 3-foot-thick brick foundation and thousands of fragments of glass, lead, brick and plaster sifted from the soil during 20 years of painstaking archaeology. Theorized Reconstruction of a 17th Century Jesuit Church in America
This long, painstaking process must not be derailed. Times, Sunday Times
It is by a painstaking examination of the facts and careful presentation of them to juries. Times, Sunday Times
In the morning, legions of women street-sweepers painstakingly clean every corner of the city.
We would like to thank all the staff from Operation Grange for the meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out. The Sun
But since standard glass creates distracting reflections, her team had to painstakingly innovate ways to prevent glare, all while following safety laws that obliged them to use the same shatterproof glass as in car windshields. Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Eriko Horiki -- Pioneer on the Washi Frontier
Not only did the doctor who did my root canal explain, in painstaking detail, what would happen and why, I had to listen to a little lesson about possible risks and sign a whole bunch of papers saying I understood the risks and was OK with them. ProWomanProLife » When we say legal=safe isn’t true…
They have carried out a wealth of painstaking research while consciously seeking to resist the presuppositions of these established camps.
It has been a painstaking process, requiring a lot of detailed work from a lot of people. Computing
She painstakingly shampooed and soaped a little a time, and every time she would get into contact with the icy water, she'd yelp.
It is a painstaking and time-consuming process that even in this modern age remains more art than science.
One of most important advances of the decade involved painstaking work that helped demonstrate that the formation of esters from carbohydrates is indeed an intermediate reaction in glycolysis. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
Whereas less expensive synthetic saddles can be almost entirely machine-made, real leather saddles must be painstakingly hand-assembled.
The best of grapes has been brought from France and painstakingly cultivated over the years to yield the kind of fruit that can be pressed into wine.
Keeping the Orpheum's original architectural style intact was crucial to the Sioux City community, and entire sections of railing, balusters, and terrazzo steps needed to be painstakingly recreated.
Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
Given Ms. Schultz's painstaking—and fascinating— research into the Mattingly lineage and into skeptical European assessments of Prince Hohenlohe's cures at the time, this is an inexcusable omission. A Mixed Blessing
The event had been planned with painstaking attention to detail.
It was painstaking work with many blind alleys and fruitless inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
He grows perpetual carnations, a laborious and painstaking business, putting a collar on each one to prevent it from splitting before a show.
There is a painstaking layering of paint, and certainly it takes many months for him to complete a work, but the paint is still fresh and loose.
It has been painstakingly refurnished and modernised to an extremely high standard, all done in the best possible taste.
Note to self: don't hit escape key while in the Blogger window, else it removes all the text that you've painstakingly put down.
Castle painstakingly inked real and altered alphabets; alphabets that look letterpressed, so finely are they executed.
The mental state and discipline needed to produce the laborious, meticulous, painstaking stitchery required for the making of watertight kamiks are not evident in Irene's work.
It took them six months of painstaking work - and they decided to give him a shaven head. Times, Sunday Times
They spent hours delivering leftovers to shelters and painstakingly storing other items in a rented closet. Christianity Today
Others have taken solace from the slow but painstaking progress towards rebuilding the ground zero site. Times, Sunday Times
It has never been as painstaking as this habituation process.
He painstakingly gathered and published in The African Past a rich collection of little-used documents dating back to antiquity.
The painstaking task of going through the consent form. Times, Sunday Times
The work can be ardous and is usually of painstaking character, requiring infinite patience, skill, and a knowledge of animal osteology. Archive 2009-02-01
However, the sad story of the Yaquis 'fate, at the hands of the Mexican government itself, was related in painstaking detail in a book entitled Barbarous Mexico, published by an American, John Kenneth Turner, in 1911. Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station
Forensic experts carried out a painstaking search of the debris.
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Through his collection, he would be showing his painstakingly done works of embroidery for which he is reckoned to be among the best.
Spiers was an unassuming and kindly man, whose painstaking scholarship was greatly admired by those who knew him.
In 2008, Ms. Motta painstakingly restored and refitted the Shiva, a rustic-luxe vessel that sleeps eight guests and a crew of six. Have It Your Way
The labyrinthine diplomacy and politics of the Italian wars are the real subject of this painstaking book about what Jem meant to others.
The colours and motifs of the stencilling were painstakingly and faithfully reproduced by analysis of paint scrapings taken from the walls and the scrutiny of old photographs. Irish cathedral to ban the use of secular songs in ceremonies
Once Marie has rubbed my feet vigorously in order to battle my chronic ticklishness, she spends an hour painstakingly applying pressure to every minute area with the edge of her thumb.
In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human.
Malpractice attorney firstborn practicably domestic scrum and bathometer to hooker painstaking, meliorative, and extempore candor. Rational Review
His choir-training methods were methodical, painstaking, and gentlemanly.
It was painstaking work with many blind alleys and fruitless inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
Besides, tons of hard work, painstaking efforts and perseverance are required.
Every aspect of the original has been closely studied and painstakingly reconstructed.
After a year of painstaking scientific research, the world's funniest joke was revealed on yesterday.
Every aspect of the original has been closely studied and painstakingly reconstructed.
Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking descent to the frothing ocean below.
Moss stands in for a lawn, and painstakingly placed stone chips form a flagstone path.
This will be a painstaking process so is likely to take some time. The Sun
Incremental in approach, painstaking in process, the drawings coax a range of associations from the touch of the pencil.
His Thesis, on the French Revolution, was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject. SOUTH OF THE SLOT

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