So a film which is delivered with considerable panache, with painstaking reconstructions, with moments of psychotic chill from Ian Holm as Sir William Gull, fails in the only way that matters: it robs the worst of the murders - the slaughter of Mary Kelly in Miller's Court - of its place in time.
Mongolian officials say the deal on Oyu Tolgoi — which took six years of painstaking negotiations with just one company — was simple compared with handling the hornet's nest of competing agendas over Tavan Tolgoi's coal.
Long account of his painstaking negotiations with the Indians, including a description of a tribal dance.
He insisted that the agenda now was set after painstaking consultations with the bishops themselves.
Disrupting the terrorists is a painstaking process with much careful preparation, and then sudden rapid activity.
The Franciscans hope his mass will pave the way for regular matins there before the tourists flock in, amid painstaking negotiations with Israel.
After experiencing real, if painstaking, contact with the world around him, the cataracts had banished him again to the state of being locked in.
Instead, since 2005 John Ruggie, the UN secretary-general's special adviser on business and human rights, has been carrying out a painstaking consultation with all the parties concerned.Mr Ruggie is due to make his final recommendations in June.
