Sentence examples for painstaking attempts from inspiring English sources

The best and most painstaking attempts to get at the truth of the drone war — like one by the New America foundation — acknowledge the difficulty of the enterprise.

Baron Cohen isn't the only victim of painstaking attempts by Oscar organisers to steer clear of anything that threatens to cause controversy.

Those painstaking attempts to recreate the original performances are what define Mr. Silipigni, artistic director and principal conductor for the New Jersey State Opera.

Jack Bauer-style derring-do, which has won out over deliberate and painstaking attempts at understanding the world we actually inhabit, will continue to lead us down the tragic road that winds through Baghdad, Kabul, and Islamabad.

Despite Rodriguez's painstaking attempts to paint his friendship with Jeter as sturdy, one Yankees official, who has spent time around both players this month, avoided a question about the two.

Rather than calmly sitting down for a parent-teacher conference where, as the teacher, you'll have to politely listen as some twerp's dad bashes your painstaking attempts to teach his kid to multiply, or grit your public-defender teeth through a disciplinary hearing where you've got to apologize for the fact that in blocking your face from a defendant's attempted punch, you broke his wrist.

But working a cycle, in a painstaking attempt to get the puck toward the net, is not chess-y at all.

It still looks a very modern construction, a working art installation that bizarrely featured a compulsory sports programme, a painstaking attempt to unleash creativity in the most sympathetic environment.

Mr. Mallon said that "her work stands out for its sheer intelligence, its painstaking attempt to discern and describe the world's configuration," and was "quietly dazzling, like looking at handmade paper under a microscope".

As part of a painstaking attempt to answer the question, he quotes the psychologist Nancy McWilliams on the "hypomanic" type: "Elated, energetic, self-promoting... work-addicted... lacking a systematic approach.... grand schemes, racing thoughts... constantly 'up' — until exhaustion eventually sets in".

This month also sees the publication of a biography, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal (Thames & Hudson), a painstaking attempt to disentangle the many contradictions of a long and singular life.