Her realm is the result of an exacting eye in which every detail is painstakingly considered.
"Every phrase, every vocal gesture and every theatrical move has been painstakingly considered," Bernard Holland wrote in The New York Times, "making this Carmen more a collection of calculated details than an entity in itself.
Long before Friday's drone strike, officials say, lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and the White House painstakingly considered the legal justification for what amounted to the execution of an American citizen without trial.
One mistake could land me in bed for weeks, so the potential cost of even the most trivial activities, from showering to walking to the mailbox, had to be painstakingly considered.
Consequently, each element is painstakingly considered.
The brainchild of architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård, Treehotels much talked-about Mirrorcube is a masterpiece of illusion – one whose every detail was painstakingly considered.
"The previous administration painstakingly considered the impacts of this pipeline, and President Trump hastily dismissed these careful environmental considerations in favor of political and personal interests," tribe chairman Dave Archambault said in a statement.
This wry introduction (which follows a funny instruction that if you don't turn off your cellphone, you are racist) is characteristic of this show: painstakingly self-conscious, conceptually considered and more than a little mechanical in its execution.
From 1914 until 1930, C. G. Jung recorded, revised, rewrote, recopied and painstakingly illustrated what he considered "the numinous beginning" from which all the rest of his work derived.
