Nearby, a young man painstakingly noted minuscule imperfections in a lustrous moonscape of midnight blue.
They painstakingly noted what worked and what didn't, even though they could only guess at why, and refined their rockets accordingly, one modification at a time.
HENDRIK HERTZBERG: In Avatar's case, what makes it worse is that the strengths of the Na'vi are painstakingly noted: oneness with nature, a sort of shared consciousness, Zen virtues etc., and then there's a straight-out military battle which they win using ordinary earthbound methods, like shooting and stabbing.
He painstakingly notes the habits of songbirds and describes his patch of forest with astonishing clarity, yet he remains oblivious to his own chaotic existence.
Mr. Taylor, whose program notes painstakingly advertise how steeped in poetry he is, must know that there has been pastoral poetry for more than two millenniums about country lads pining for other lads as well as for lasses, but he excludes that from his dream world; and you have the feeling that it'll take at least nationwide legislation before any same-sex marriage occurs on his stage.
Before automobiles were mass-produced on assembly lines, Mr. London noted, they were more painstakingly constructed in small-scale "boutique" shops, like the coaches they supplanted.
The 10-year-old storefront institution is noted, or perhaps notorious, for painstakingly annotated but nevertheless baffling displays of objects like mummified mice on toast (an old remedy for incontinence) and crucifixion scenes carved into fruit pits.
Imbued with a deep professionalism, he operated at his own pace, painstakingly planning the installations and catalogs he was noted for and maintaining loyalty to his artists even when their markets had declined.
In his Checkers speech, in 1952, while defending himself against charges involving a political-expense fund, he painstakingly and defiantly detailed his financial standing—"It isn't very much"—and noted that his wife, Pat, wore not a fur coat but "a respectable Republican cloth coat".
As Podhoretz noted, "the poetry last night was muscular, forthright, plain and tough — deliberately and painstakingly so".
As Podhoretz noted, "the poetry last night was muscular, forthright, plain and tough — deliberately and painstakingly so.'' If the Democrats are the "Daddy party" and the Republicans are the "Mommy party," the columnist went on, "this was the most Republican speech Barack Obama has ever given".
