Her mother — who had never painted anything requiring such scientific precision — took over the painstaking process of illustrating the nests and eggs.
In his closing statement, Ben Emmerson, the lawyer for Alexander's widow Marina Litvinenko, paid tribute to the UK's Metropolitan Police over their "painstaking investigation… over what is now almost a decade".
We marvel over the painstaking beauty of Lucretia's bejewelled robe and the lifelike shadows playing over her open left hand, which seems pathetically to implore divine mercy, and the delicacy of her upper chest, which a flashing blade will presently penetrate.
His works, even from the most superficial perspective, differ from Frank Gehry's or Zaha Hadid's or Jean Nouvel's or Norman Foster's, for starters, because they are not flashy: they often don't grab you at all at first glance, being conceived from the inside out, usually over many painstaking years.
The agreement, which was reached over a painstaking months-long process, was aimed at remedying racist practices in the courts and policing of the St Louis suburb, which erupted into unrest twice in 2014 over the fatal shooting by a white police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old.
LONDON — The ball gown, cinched at the waist with capped sleeves and a heart-shaped neckline, practically glows thanks to the multitude of pearls, crystals and sequins embroidered using gold and silver silk threads onto the ivory duchesse satin over eight painstaking months.
It spawned both a string of hit singles and a succession of reviews that boggled over the painstaking work and imagination that must have gone into making it: more than 3,500 samples meticulously stitched together into a seamless hour of music.
The intricate details of the altarpieces, frescoes, chandeliers and tiled floors in this 54m long, 12m high place of worship are all the more impressive for having been meticulously hand carved entirely from salt over 30 painstaking years.
Thatcher often referred after the war to the "Falklands Spirit"; Hastings and Jenkins (1983) suggested that this reflected her preference for the streamlined decision-making of her War Cabinet over the painstaking deal-making of peace-time cabinet government.
Over-arching the painstaking discussions of subsidies, openness, tariffs and the like is the question whether China is a poor country deserving of indulgent treatment, or a richer one fit to meet normal WTO obligations.
