In The Annotated Turing, Petzold – one of the great explicators of our time – provides a painstaking, line-by-line and dazzlingly lucid reading of Turing's famous 36-page paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
But Mr. Burns works years ahead, and on a hot August day his next project, a 12-hour history of America's national park system due in 2009, demanded attention: a painstaking line-by-line examination of a rough edit of the Grand Canyon episode.
Many people have pondered the split between Mr. Cartier-Bresson's photographs, with their instantaneity, and his later drawings, with their hesitant, even painstaking lines.
She animates the two monsters according to his painstaking instructions, projecting lines from "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" into their mouths.
If this test site is any indication, the American airport of the near future will have long but reasonably quick lines, painstaking -- sometimes exasperating -- security procedures, dozens of instructional video screens and warning signs, and hundreds of grim-faced men and women in white uniforms roaming the concourses with walkie-talkies.
Elizabeth Simonson, the third exhibitor, transformed a wall into topography by drawing pencil lines in painstaking, endlessly repetitive patterns that evoke mountains receding in the distance.
But even in these pictures her painstaking attention to color and line announced that she was pursuing her own kind of concerns.
In the painting six unhappy men with a variety of eye afflictions, depicted in painstaking detail, walk in a line, each resting a hand for guidance on the man in front.
Smiley recalls visiting the Balzac museum in Paris and gazing in wonder at the displays of page proofs with Balzac's painstaking corrections scratched between the lines in a tiny hand.
The painstaking work of bringing Turkish law into line with EU law has more or less stopped.
