The monastic book of the early Middle Ages was luxurious, made of fine parchment and gold leaf, and contained painstaking script and artistic illuminations.
In painstaking detail, the book documents the daily existence of a circle of English-speaking expatriates in early-90s Prague.
But this was partly for the ignoble reason that she padded her bills and charged the client for work she had not in fact done".A Woman in Charge" by Carl Bernstein is the better book: painstaking, sensitive and elegantly written.
September 30 2009 November 29 200909 Wolfe throws down the gauntlet to the Kindle and the iPod, in painstaking re-creations of book and record covers.
This is a beautiful book with painstaking, lifelike illustrations that pull you into the story from the start.
Plough your way through this book's painstaking statistical detective work and you realise that most generalisations about labour-market volatility are probably wrong.But many Lou-Dobbesian shibboleths are comprehensively demolished.
Centred entirely on the minute detail of one man's life, the book's painstaking and often painful unfolding of his haphazard progress through life demonstrated her determination to transform banality into something remarkable, to commemorate the complexity and strange beauty of the everyday.
In past years, Zilahy's work would have found a home at a small political press in the U.S., and painstaking attention in the book review sections of top newspapers from Eastern European experts.
But the science in the book required a painstaking and at times brain-hurting education — hours reading textbooks and papers, but also listening to some admirably patient teachers.
It was precisely this structure that his book, through a painstaking unraveling of Haydn's string quartets, Mozart's comic operas, Beethoven's piano sonatas and other seminal works, sought to make plain.
