The project has involved painstaking work, to plot and then visit the exact Lake District locations depicted in Wainwright's books, before painting full colour versions of the views as they exist today.
'I was totally immersed in Stan's character to the point that I knew what he had done in the war, I knew he was an orphan, but, until very close to the moment we started actually shooting, I had no idea of the plot.' It is this painstaking methodology that makes Leigh, our greatest living director, what used to be called an auteur.
Working with local field assistants on the island — "the best botanists ever" — Sheldrake carried out a painstaking census of the soil in a series of plots, sequencing the DNA of hundreds of root samples taken both from green plants and the Voyria.
His second book, A Rich Full Death, combined a historically painstaking and illuminating account of the Brownings' (Elizabeth Barrett and Robert) life in Italy with a compulsive murder plot - so he was hardly a low culture kind of guy.
In testimony so painstaking that the judge and some jurors seemed to nod off at the mundane details of a plot that left 163 people dead, Mr. Headley described how he changed his name and used his American passport to portray himself alternately as a tourist or a businessman, concealing his Muslim faith and his Pakistani roots so he could travel easily across borders.
The most painstaking task of the year so far has been the annual census of vegetation in the plots.
Roth gets reviewed for supreme literature, literature worded with exquisite detail and plotted with oppressive brilliance and he's been doing it for so long with such painstaking consistency, can't Senator Obama put forth an initiative to ban criticism of Philip Roth books?
"Diplomacy is painstaking work.
But progress is painstaking.
The process was painstaking.
