Both "takes" depend on an observer who leaves herself out of the picture: the photograph effaces the mother, since she takes it; the poem, in painstakingly avoiding all commentary, hides its author as best it can, though there she is, sucking her thumb.
After weeks of working in the same building and painstakingly avoiding interaction, I learned the firm had fired her.
And, ominously, a cadre of four of its biggest cable customers, sick of Gemstar's near-monopoly, have developed a competing interactive guide that was painstakingly designed to avoid infringing Gemstar's patent portfolio.
Most presidents try to avoid controversy by painstakingly parsing their words like a fifth grader conserving an allowance at the county fair.
Although multicore computers allow some processing to occur in parallel, their efficacy is limited: software engineers must painstakingly choreograph these streams of information to avoid catastrophic system errors.
The giant, airy interiors conceal a painstakingly executed series of cantilevers designed to avoid your navigating the huge columns that would otherwise be essential for support.
The surgery was painstakingly difficult; the surgeon meticulously dissected out the kidney avoiding the tumour and vessels.
In the first, five dancers pressed the ends of the sticks together to form a diagonal line as they moved painstakingly over and under them, all the while trying to avoid separation.
In this matter, it would be very appropriate to avoid rediscovering the wheel, and instead to reflect on the ground painstakingly covered by the wellbeing and social indicator movements in the rich countries.
By then, the parasite has grown 3 feet long and must be slowly, painstakingly extracted -- inch by painful inch -- and coiled gingerly around a stick to avoid breaking the worm and crippling its victim; this same treatment was used in Ancient Greece.
She warns aspiring scientists to avoid including grumpy or aggressive dissertation committee members--for all the obvious reasons--and cautions diligence in being painstakingly exact in recording and interpreting data.
