That air of disbelief and wonder runs through these two books on Chardin, the one a catalog of an exhibition seen last year and this in Paris, Dsseldorf, London and at the Metropolitan Musem of Art, the other a painstaking life-and-works survey of Chardin's career.
This "admiring, comprehensive and painstaking biography," as our reviewer, Colm Toibin, described it, creates "a convincing narrative out of a life that was deeply engaged, passionate and maybe even fulfilled, despite the demons".
USUALLY theater goes one of two ways: a painstaking glare at life as it is; or a wild-eyed wink at life as it is not.
Arsenault explores Anderson's early life in painstaking, sometimes cumbersome detail.
However, by virtue of Diamond's painstaking descriptions of traditional life itself, The World before Yesterday really warms the cockles.
Under Mr. Rideau, The Angolite ran painstaking exposés: about sexual life at the prison, about poor medical services, about a cruelly malfunctioning electric chair.
The question is exhaustively treated in Eileen Warburton's biography, along with every conceivable detail of her subject's life and painstaking links between the life and the work.
His painstaking account of the life of the Indian promoter of protest through non-violence was his greatest directorial triumph, gaining 11 Oscar nominations and winning eight, including those for Ben Kingsley as Best Actor and Attenborough as Best Producer and Best Director.
The tapes — 27 reels running a total of more than 13 hours — are filled with Christie's painstaking dictation of her life story, rough material recorded in the early 1960s that eventually made up her autobiography, published posthumously in 1977.
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.
