Frank's final volume follows the pattern of his earlier ones, covering a relatively short period of the author's life in painstaking detail, in this case the years of Dostoyevsky's last decade.
In their painstaking reconstruction of the case, Judge Giancarlo Massei and Judge Beatrice Cristiani outlined their understanding of the events leading up to Ms. Kercher's death and enumerated the DNA and forensic evidence that led the jury — the two judges along with six civilians — to reach a guilty verdict.
For wall mosaics the preparation was equally painstaking, and in many cases an application of a waterproofing of resin or tar preceded the laying of the mortar.
The Memphis series is like a slower version of "C.S.I.," driven by the methodical, painstaking process of solving a case.
Police sources said that investigators had made the breakthrough on the case from a painstaking examination of cell-phone calls around the area of Filin's apartment building, on Troitskaya Street, on the night of the attack.
Ms. Duncan, like many people with an interest in genealogy, did years of painstaking historical research; in her case, crisscrossing the country and tracking records on various Caribbean islands.
The police began a painstaking process of revisiting old cases and reinterrogating state witnesses (known as pentiti).
Ms. Belton shows a poignant sense of drama in these painstaking photographs, although in some cases her efforts seem a little precious.
At a recent hearing in Austin, both sides began the painstaking process of pleading their cases to the hearing examiner, Marcy Spraggins, who will forward her recommendation to the commissioners.
Kennedy's book, 10 Rillington Place, published in January 1961, was the result of a year's painstaking review of the Evans and Christie cases.
