Sentence examples for a painstaking exercise from inspiring English sources

That's more or less the case in the new "Arrested Development," but the paradoxical result is that Season 4 is a painstaking exercise in the art of withholding.

This might sound like a painstaking exercise, but clubs already employ performance data experts to do this for technical analysis so it would just be a case of grouping the information in a different manner.

Creating and maintaining a blended whisky is a painstaking exercise, one that is significantly more difficult than producing a single malt, for the simple reason that so many more elements are involved.

Architectural rendering (an advanced "coloring within the lines," if you will), on the other hand, is a painstaking exercise that that takes decades of experience to master.

This became particularly evident when the assets were transferred to the new custodian in April 1997 and significant discrepancies in the valuation of investments between the out-going and the in-coming custodian had to be reconciled, which proved a painstaking exercise.

Inference within the graphical modeling paradigm amounts to an often painstaking exercise in covariance estimation and model selection.

Watching Mr. Zukerman boil and eat one egg, then do the whole painstaking exercise a second time, is straining the patience of the viewers, who have already accepted the play's conceit.

The review entailed not only the painstaking exercise of mapping the movements of all concerned, over many hours, but also the extensive exercise of seeking to resolve the complex and difficult areas of disagreement between the medical experts.

Some say it is a caricature of the painstaking exercises to which Satie was subjected at the Conservatoire de Paris.

After a Turquoise Wrap on the evening of my arrival, and the desert hike the next morning, I spent most of the afternoon in the fitness area where my trainer-for-an-hour ($95), Roseann, led me on a painstaking circuit of the exercise machines, with stretches following each workout.

Everything about Day of the Dead suggests that it long ago ceased being a fundraising exercise for the Aids charity Red Hot and turned into a painstaking labour of love.