Sentence examples for painstaking act from inspiring English sources

A Chicago Tribune review described the book as a "painstaking act of devotion" that nevertheless failed in its mission: "No one reading it is likely to agree with Bartley that the founder of est is a philosopher and spiritual leader of Gandhian magnitude except the already convinced".

The need to satisfy competing constituencies and patronage networks within China's political elite is always a delicate and painstaking balancing act.

Joker shoots Barbara through the spine, an act shown in painstaking, painful detail.

The authorities in Egypt rarely act even when painstaking documentation of violence against women is presented, says Mariam Kirollos, a human-rights activist.

The Clean Air Act was developed through painstaking years of compromise and collaboration.

In the two weeks since President Obama made good on that threat -- in fact, bested it by declining to give Pakistan a chance to act first -- reams have been written about the painstaking detective hunt that led to bin Laden.

We read with awe Verdi's painstaking analysis of how this or that should be sung or acted.

It must have been an act of faith for Boo, 50, to allow her work of painstaking reportage, albeit one that is page-turning in its novelistic sweep, to be morphed into a stage fiction, where meticulously researched interview subjects will perforce become "characters".

In Act I the composer and the librettist had worked, as usual, in painstaking detail to get it right.

And in the landscapes of Monet, who used slow, painstaking brushwork to create an illusion of gestural speed, time is distilled in the act of painting itself.

So the fact that North Korea was not caught in the act has meant that the investigation team has had to embark on a painstaking and slow process, attempting to piece together what happened by examining the shattered wreck of the ship, salvaged in two pieces from the sea bed.