It was an exacting process that, with study and research, took nearly a year.
This surface grading is an exacting process, as it is easy to damage the surface.
Building the work was an exacting process, as no element was readymade.
It's an exacting process that if done poorly, will be noticeable, and noticeably distracting.
But the more you read, the more difficult it becomes, until an exacting process becomes wrenching.
The exacting process of animation, often requiring a year to turn a script into an episode, does not mesh with the overnight delivery demanded by network television.
Copying the studio-factory idea favored by American role models like Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, Mr. Murakami leaves the exacting process of painting -- it is so meticulous that the finished works often look rendered by the robots out of "A.I".
Whether solicited or unsolicited these are exposed to the same exacting process of peer review.
Diane Theriot, vice president for awards for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, said, "It's a very exacting process to create a category, but Ellen sent in an excellent, well-documented proposal".
In the early days of photography, taking a picture was a laborious and exacting process — "as time-consuming, and often as messy, as making a stew," as Anthony Lane writes in his piece on Carroll and the "Alice" books in the Summer Fiction Issue.
The very picture of a tradition as burnished as its mahogany drams, revered worldwide, Armagnac has always been a product of exacting process mixed with a saintly patience.
