(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.
Scrupulous
Definition:
(a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
(a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
(a.) Given to making objections; captious.
(a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life-threatening or lethal toxicity was encountered when these phenomena were not scrupulously observed.
(2) Invariably in these films the visuals are scrupulously authentic, but the "message" is very much in line with the values of their human creators.
(3) A plea is made for scrupulous care to avoid starch powder contamination of the operative field.
(4) And yet, according to his widow Sheila Ravenscroft, this photograph documents the first stage in a complicated and scrupulous filing system that Peel had maintained for his record collection since 1969.
(5) He is always scrupulous to keep his views to himself and enjoys the respect of politicians of all stripes, who recognise the skills of a top operator.
(6) Bernie Sanders has scrupulously avoided throwing punches at political rivals during a career that has lasted close to half a century .
(7) Telling an institution to “keep its mouth shut” is, quite simply, a threat – entirely different from expressing the hope that the media might want to temper its criticism and scrupulously check its facts.
(8) However, he added: “We are going to be scrupulous in investigating cases where we are concerned about the impartiality and accountability that is taking place.” Earlier this week, Obama hosted a White House summit to deal with the fallout from the unrest in Ferguson and concerns about police brutality and stereotyping that the president said have resonated in communities across the country.
(9) Infection is a potential risk in diabetic men using intracavernosal injection therapy and those offered it should be informed of the importance of a scrupulous sterile technique and the need to seek urgent medical help for decompression if an erection persists for more than 4-6 h.
(10) Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge as a new adjective.
(11) This favourable series demonstrates that nowadays with the improved technology and with a scrupulous pharmacological protocol transluminal coronary angioplasty can be performed with a low incidence of complications and excellent results, further assessing its high potential in the treatment of ischemic coronary artery disease.
(12) Even with the most scrupulous IUD insertion technics, uterine perforation is a recognized complication.
(13) The live footage on the sports channel ESPN was scrupulously presented in line with post-Reithian attitudes to the depiction of private crisis: as soon as it became apparent that Muamba was in extremis, the camera pulled back to a long, high angle, which showed only a distant huddle.
(14) These findings indicate the importance of scrupulous hand washing before and after handling each infant and of enforcement of other basic nursery techniques.
(15) One critic, for example, in a very patient, and indeed in every respect but one a positively scrupulous, reading of one of Eliot's anti-semitic poems, "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," glancingly commented, "the question whether [it is] anti-semitic is obviously not a pressing one".
(16) From analysis of the results of scrupulous examination of 66 patients with pathological shadows up to 3 cm in diameter found in the lungs during X-ray examination the authors established that peripheral carcinoma of the lung accounts for 65.2% of all asymptomatic accidentally revealed structures in the lungs.
(17) In the absence of added Mg2+ untreated tRNA was acylated in the presence of spermine, but tRNA from which Mg2+ had been scrupulously removed was not.
(18) Each stone is then carefully cleaned by hand and scrupulously recorded before being put into storage.
(19) The results of our study indicate that a more scrupulous enforcement of legislative measures concerning anti-tetanus vaccination is recommended.
(20) Recommended biography Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (2004) is a masterly study of Wodehouse's achievement, and includes a scrupulous and clear-eyed examination of the wartime scandal which dispenses with much of the accumulated hyperbole.