Catholic life, especially young, devout and zealous Catholic life of the kind described so painstakingly in John Cornwell's memoir, "Seminary Boy," is filled with arcane masochisms and bizarre prostrations that only a Catholic can fully appreciate.
Mr. Adair described the painstakingly slow progress taking place on Wednesday, as rescue workers inched forward, reinforcing walls with steel pillars every two and a half feet to stave off further collapses.
In an office filled with plaques honoring her, Ms. Roberts painstakingly described a long list of accomplishments.
Judge Cedarbaum painstakingly described each of the charges to the jurors, explaining what was required to determine the verdict on each one.
Sets and facial expressions are painstakingly described; interior monologues are presumed; viewer reaction is postulated; tangents that take us to other movies ("The Maltese Falcon," "To Catch a Thief") are followed.
And the Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven — like the bloody wounds on Jesus' palms — that he had not been shown before.
Paul Jenkins' work has been painstakingly described and dissected by art critics, who have attempted to put across his meltingly apocalyptic, eerily monumental commitment to a life steeped in appreciation of energy in its myriad forms.
A decade ago, interviewed for a BBC2 documentary The 600mph Men, he painstakingly described the technique of flying the Hunter into the sound barrier and coming out across an airfield at 720mph.
Realist historical fictions, with the rustling demands of their costumes and their period-appropriate speech, often depend on painstakingly described physical veracity, sensory believability, to steep a reader in the past.
In an interview with the Guardian last year, Bottura painstakingly described how he had once asked himself why he insisted on boiling six different cuts of meat – beef, pork, and chicken – for a recipe.
