WHERE will you find classes of young people painstakingly learning the names of America's state capitals, earnestly watching episodes of "Friends" and doggedly trying to distinguish between "unh-unh," meaning no, and "uh-huh," meaning yes?
As a senior monk led them, the boys were painstakingly learning to read, memorizing the ancient scripts as well as modern Burmese and trying to chant in time, though I noticed several dozing on the ground.
At the end of the post Mark wrote: I am appalled at what that means – that the survival skills that the bull has painstakingly learnt over half a century have been rendered useless by the poachers' use of mass-produced Chinese goods; GPS smart-phones, cheap motorcycles and night vision goggles.
Painstakingly, he learned the ways of America, and then went on to become thoroughly secular.
At his first job, with Anderson & Shepherd, one of Britain's most venerable bespoke tailors, he learned, painstakingly, to cut jackets.
That Ted's was still going strong I learned from Dubowski's letters, which he painstakingly read aloud to me.
Then, all I wanted and needed, when I learned so painstakingly to read and then to write, was to find a way to be less alone.
Not to mention the habits of perseverance and attention to detail I learned by painstakingly parsing Horace or Thucydides in the original.
She has learned English, painstakingly, by underlining every word she does not understand in her readings, then looking it up in a dictionary.
