(a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
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Painstaking
Definition:
(a.) Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
(n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(2) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
(3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
(4) And in the social media era every single facet of Who is analysed in painstaking detail on an internet that breeds strongly held and not always generous opinions.
(5) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
(6) By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won't end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward.
(7) It is an outgrowth of good science, painstakingly investigated, and meticulously executed.
(8) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(9) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
(10) An insight in the genesis of anorectal abnormality, combined with a painstaking diagnostic examination leading to a justifiable, well-considered therapeutic procedure, may spell hope and better prospects to approximately 35 children that are born with this abnormality in The Netherlands each year.
(11) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
(12) The convenience and sensitivity of the fluorimetric assay based on the QF-ERP7 moiety offers several advantages compared with previously described painstaking procedures for endooligopeptidase A activity measurements, what will certainly contribute to further our understanding of the role of this enzyme on the peptide hormone metabolism.
(13) He went through a painstaking reconstruction of the plane's emergency landing after Abdulmutallab set off his device.
(14) Disrupting the terrorists is a painstaking process with much careful preparation, and then sudden rapid activity.
(15) Appropriate administration of oral anticoagulation requires painstaking laboratory and therapeutic control, the former being based on continuous quality assessment and strict standardization of the prothrombin time.
(16) He’s falsely believed that slogans, rather than painstaking explanations, would convince people to accept his policies.
(17) In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham , has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
(18) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
(19) Watts, who was born in Britain and moved to Australia at the age of 14, said she painstakingly researched the role by watching old interviews and reading biographies.
(20) A direct approach to the general public via the mass media and painstaking search of hospital records proved to be the most effective methods.