Using nothing but his hands and a hammer, Mr. Wilson painstakingly broke through the rubble, dug a tunnel and freed Rachel.
It's surpassing strange how fully and painstakingly Heller breaks all those rules.
It is a perplexing crime: No valuables have been stolen — only their cat, Labes, is missing — but their orderly possessions have been painstakingly trashed and broken.
As he sees it, malicious hackers can break into corporate and government networks using a single software vulnerability, while the good guys must painstakingly check and patch every one of thousands of potentially hackable holes in their systems.
More and more, they are broken into bits, first by dynamite, then painstakingly by hand, so that the earth can be flattened and new office towers can come up.
Some industry observers have begun to wonder whether groups such as Vivendi, so painstakingly and expensively pieced together, would not be better off broken up.
Three Percent has painstakingly tracked translation publications since 2008 and, for each year since, has broken down its database into categories like country of origin (Europe tends to win—France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and publication date (spring and fall are the most popular).
Three Percent has painstakingly tracked translation publications since 2008 and, for each year since, has broken down its database into categories like country of origin (Europe tends to win — France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and publication date (spring and fall are the most popular).
Having recovered a haul of around 450 memorial plaques that were stolen from cemeteries, broken into fragments and sold to a scrap metal yard, they are now painstakingly reassembling the memorials as a giant jigsaw on the floor.
In a swirling dance in the dust Lilith breaks down the rows of bricks painstakingly aligned by the Rubble Women.
