Sentence examples for painstaking dissection from inspiring English sources

He rented a farmhouse in a remote Lincolnshire village, where, over a period of 18 months, he undertook the painstaking dissection of innumerable specimens.

In the end, after a painstaking dissection of the evidence, the 11 jurors found the case presented by the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, left, inescapable: The well-documented misstatements of Mr. Libby were not those of an innocently forgetful man but of a calculating serial perjurer.

"Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny, by Papa," as the extract is titled, seems an unlikely project for Auster, who is more commonly thought of as a modern, philosophical novelist than as a sentimental one - "philosophical both in the sense of devoted to thought, and in the sense of fatalistic, stoically accepting life's vagaries", to quote one painstaking dissection of his style.

But horses were Stubbs's prime subject, and he earned fame with his still admired tour de force, "The Anatomy of the Horse" (1766), based on painstaking dissections of equine corpses from head to hoof.

It is only through painstaking dissections of the mechanisms controlling cell cycle progression such as these that we will begin to understand the means by which oestrogens and anti-oestrogens exert their effects, and to understand how some breast cancers become hormone resistant.

We were all picky once – even Guardian restaurant critic Marina O'Loughlin, whose mother would accuse her of performing brain surgery on meat because of her painstaking food dissection.

She published painstaking critical dissections of photography and dance; illness, politics and pornography; and, most famously, camp.

Darwin's painstaking observations, experiments, and detailed dissection of the flowers explained previously unknown features such as the puzzle of Catasetum, which had been thought to have three completely different species of flowers on the same plant.

"Diplomacy is painstaking work.

But progress is painstaking.

The process was painstaking.