Sentence examples for painstaking practice from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Brooks notes, painstaking practice at increasing levels of complexity or challenge and a guiding hand from knowledgeable teachers are necessary to refine promising abilities into excellence.

The title of their collected correspondence is taken from Lowell's late poem about that painstaking practice: Have you seen an inchworm crawl on a leaf, cling to the very end, revolve in air, feeling for something to reach to something?

Naïve writers, "naturals" like the 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys, the late 18th-century French naïf Restif de la Bretonne, the 20th-century American novelist Henry Miller, are all deservedly called stylists, although their styles are far removed from the deliberate, painstaking practice of a Flaubert or a Turgenev.

"The garments have had their own lives before I've worked on them, and by embroidering the lyrics onto them in a long and often painstaking practice.

After a long, steep learning curve, through painstaking practice and the right tools, Brady now has a constantly expanding online gallery and a growing consumer base buying prints of his digital imaginings.

But even before the art world acknowledged the art of the videogame, the Entertainment Software Association launched a juried art exhibition in 2003 called Into the Pixel to recognize and celerate the vast achievements and advancements of this painstaking creative practice.

He explained how he grows Pippins with concentrated flavor through painstaking artisanal practices: He farms standard-size trees on seedling rootstock, which thrive without irrigation; he prunes hard and thins heavily, so that the fruits are few but large and well-nourished.

His aspiring artist's practice is "painstaking and error-focused," which raises the question: What are the mistakes?