The NYCMap is an interactive database, a quilt of aerial photographs layered with geographic information, all of it painstakingly assembled using complex algorithms and simple shoe leather.
In this ancient art form developed by Tibetan Buddhist monks, millions of grains of multicolored sand are painstakingly poured into complex patterns.
To make this happen, bodies such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Telecommunications Union painstakingly draw up complex technical standards with which whole industries comply.Standards benefit both consumers (by reducing the cost of switching from one product to another, say) and producers (by allowing greater economies of scale).
The seafood dishes, like Oceana's, are often complex and painstakingly constructed.
The intelligence, such as it is, resides in valves, gears and complex contours painstakingly machined into camshafts.
Not only did Qunar have to painstakingly build its own complex database of deals, routes and prices, but one of Qunar's main businesses is giving hotels and airlines a software-as-a-service booking engine so that they'll actually have the kind of results to aggregate and search that Kayak was able to take for granted.
Then a colleague who specializes in computer graphics, Curtis Eberhardt, painstakingly translated Mr. Godard's complex sketches to a software program.
Intrigued by the inscription, she painstakingly researched his life and found how he, a complex man with a deep sense of honor, bought his freedom and built a home, a family and his own successful business as a skilled weaver and tanner.
The Bush administration seems to have assumed in its approach to post-Saddam Iraq that both democracy and a market economy were default conditions to which societies would revert once oppressive tyranny was removed, rather than a series of complex, interdependent institutions that had to be painstakingly built over time.
