Sentence examples for painstaking pace from inspiring English sources

VERNON, Vt .— At Vermont Yankee, a nuclear reactor on the ropes, the search for a tritium leak that may doom the plant is proceeding as quickly as possible — which is to say, at a painstaking pace.

One reason may have been her painstaking pace; another, the fact that she chose to write in her lyrical style about subjects that did not often lend themselves to cutting-edge reportage: making one's home into a sanctuary, how to wrap a scarf, African fertility dolls.

The $10 billion, planned to be paid over the next 3 years, is also expected to help accelerate the climate negotiations that have been continuing at a painstaking pace.

These relationships are mediated by their professional experiences as soldiers turned movers and one of the novel's virtues is that, in its threaded texture and slow-burn pace and painstaking quality of attention, it represents an innovation on an old form: It is, beneath all of the bigger thematic concerns, a novel about work.

Together they are studying, discussing and haggling over hundreds of absentee ballots at a painstaking, one-at-a-time pace.

Yes, this is a slow and painstaking process, but a steady pace is the democratic way.

Part of the problem may be the pacing – Moggach builds her tale with painstaking slowness, wanting the non-literariness of the prose to reflect accurately her non-literary narrator.

A team led by Ellery Frahm from the University of Sheffield has found a way to pinpoint the source of artefacts made of obsidian, a glassy rock formed after volcanic lava hardens, on the spot, in ten seconds.Given the painstaking nature of archaeological work, and consequently its leisurely pace, the technique may sound like overkill.

The procedure is painstaking: the heavy squeegees are moved at a snail's pace, with pressure applied and released, the colors emerging and blending partly by chance.

Two Israeli backpackers were the first foreigners named among the dead, as the painstaking work of confirming the identities of scores of others gained pace.

What's more, upholstery is an utterly absorbing, occasionally painstaking and almost meditative craft, and ideally suited to the unhurried Cornish pace of life.