Sentence examples for painstaking quest from inspiring English sources

It has been a painstaking quest for him to prove he can throw it and produce results.

Arnold Friberg, a widely popular artist of historical and religious scenes whose painstaking quest for stunning realism led him to Valley Forge, Pa., on a winter's day to paint what became a famous portrait of George Washington praying in the snow, died Thursday in Salt Lake City.

My growing-up years (1931-48), my college-going years (1949-53), and my early professional years as an academic (1960s) witnessed our country's painstaking quest for its version of an industrial civilization's social contract between the weak and well-off citizens.

Tracking the body of 6-year-old Etan, who vanished on the Friday before that holiday 33 years ago, from one of those piles to a faraway dump would be a painstaking quest if the records kept by the Sanitation Department went back that far.

By Friday, the recovery effort was beginning to take its toll on some rescue workers, who have spent much of the week on the painstaking, but largely fruitless, quest for survivors.

But while the families and friends of the victims focused on the horror of the crime, the Supreme Court laid out in painstaking detail the record of Mr. Trantino's quest for parole, and the increasingly unsubstantiated reasons that it said officials had used to keep him locked up.

The richness of the film lies not just in the hero's quest to establish his identity but in its painstaking depiction of medieval rural life.

"Diplomacy is painstaking work.

But progress is painstaking.

The process was painstaking.

It is careful, painstaking work".