Sentence examples for painstaking arrangements from inspiring English sources

Writing in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner bemoaned how "the exquisite, painstaking arrangements" of Harrison's earlier albums were absent from Dark Horse, with "Ding Dong" "a string of greeting-card clichés with trite music to match".

Dan Vidal of URB commented "sonically, the joy comes from the triumphant, painstaking arrangement that undoubtedly went into the production".

Irony, sentiment, in-jokes, parody, theatrical rock and painstaking arrangement, all hanging on a framework that has as much to do with 30s cabaret as late-90s pop.

Ms. Holofcener's mother, Carol Joffe, is at least portrayed as someone of her own sex -- the character based on her is played by Brenda Blethyn -- but she comes off as vain, ditzy and obsessed with the painstaking arrangement of a dozen throw pillows she keeps piled on her bed.

The resulting liquid is poured tableside into a shallow bowl that harbors a painstaking arrangement of skordalia interlopers: a long, sliced caper berry; an oval of diced beet; several crispy, batter-encased orbs of cod; and stacked petals of cod confit with an amazing tenderness and a generous sprinkling of dill.

The pen-and-ink illustrations that accompany "Funeral," including an image of a hand manipulating a quill, signal the band's commitment to painstaking effort — whether it's adding complicated horn and string arrangements to a rock song or making a promotional video for the Web in the style of a nineteen-seventies late-night-television commercial.

"Diplomacy is painstaking work.

But progress is painstaking.

The process was painstaking.

The process entailed painstaking relationships.

It is painstaking work.