What's the difference between painstaking and peruse?

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.

Peruse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To observe; to examine with care.
  • (v. t.) To read through; to read carefully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I peruse a potential bargain I know I am influenced more by the extent of the reduction than whether the discounted item is something we really want.
  • (2) A brief perusal of the list indicates that is a very big if.
  • (3) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (4) Complementary vectors drive the reader to peruse these records.
  • (5) Jamie Oliver may have time to wander around perusing the streets for good deals on fresh food and finding charming little stories out of what is actually poverty rather than budget cooking for fun, but in the real world you do the best with what you have.
  • (6) Information about the patients, the characteristics and management of their asthma and the circumstances of the fatal episode was obtained by interviewing relatives and general practitioners and perusal of hospital records.
  • (7) It will then extract whatever metadata the user is looking for and store it all in a file for perusal later on.
  • (8) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
  • (9) One must peruse the literature with a very critical eye, as most new agents are touted as tremendous advances on past antibiotics.
  • (10) The database provides a continuous online environment for data perusal and editing and is used as the informatics core for running the human gene mapping workshops.
  • (11) Perusal of the literature disclosed two additional similar cases.
  • (12) Focused, microregion anatomic perusal is applicable throughout pregnancy, provides information for physiologic inference, and can be used for prediction of pathology, detection of abnormalities, and, in most examinations, in a wellness role of confirming normality.
  • (13) Let me peruse something lighter, such as the Sunday papers.
  • (14) In his regular monthly commentary as head of the schools watchdog, Ofsted , Wilshaw writes: “Anyone regularly perusing the job vacancy pages of the education press cannot help but notice just how many of our elite public schools are busy opening up international branches across the globe, especially in the Gulf states and the far east,” he says.
  • (15) Perusal of the literature uncovered only a single report of a placental leiomyoma.
  • (16) Perusal of the literature revealed that until 1970, 13 children with malignant melanoma of the head and neck had been reported.
  • (17) For the manual search, the contents of 34 arbitrarily selected, gastroenterologic, hepatologic, surgical, or general journals were perused.
  • (18) Perusal of the literature revealed seven cases of Spitz nevus of the conjunctiva, but for some of them the histology was incompletely described.
  • (19) A stage has been set up to welcome medallists and fans can pick up supporter’s packs containing Russian flags and peruse memorabilia donated by famous Russian athletes.
  • (20) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.