Sentence examples similar to be at pains to answer from inspiring English sources

He is at pains to express himself clearly in answer to questions, taking time to ensure that he has got his point across as honestly as possible and admitting: "I'd rather be embarrassingly open than embarrassingly guarded".

The Col. not only answers the letters, but is at pains to refute any published calumny of Burr he comes acros.

It was no coincidence that Ed Miliband was at pains to use his candidate's full formal title in virtually every answer when I interviewed him out on the campaign trail in Doncaster.

"Of course," he answered, "Why else would I go to all this trouble?" I had to ask because many another writer has been at pains to renounce any such socially ameliorative purpose.

Christie was at pains to deny this.

This Galbraith is at pains to dispel.

She is at pains to insist she is being herself.

Yet Potter is at pains to be optimistic.

Hathaway, too, is at pains to accentuate every syllable.

But she was at pains to elude definition.

Or so the Tea Bureau is at pains to persuade us.