An e-mail message, however, can go through multiple drafts; wording and tone can painstakingly be thought out, reviewed, edited and, if it's not quite right, sent back to committee.
"We may not look like the rest of Hollywood," said another Sony executive who spoke on condition of anonymity, "but that doesn't mean this isn't a painstakingly thought-through strategy and a profitable one".
That means policies need to be carefully thought through, painstakingly explained and be robust enough to withstand rigorous policy debate.
And as he labors, moving methodically from beneath the hood of his wooden box camera to a portable field darkroom, bearing wet iron plates that he has painstakingly prepared, he thinks of himself not as simply making pictures but also as taking part in the world of the cowboys who are the subjects of his otherworldly tintype portraits.
A great burger is a work of art, passionately thought out and painstakingly executed.
I watch a lot of TV, and not much of it is as carefully thought out and painstakingly crafted as this show.
He locates Pluto the following year, in roughly the position where Lowell thought "Planet X" should be, by painstakingly comparing numerous photographs of the night sky.
New Labour loyalists thought the party's pro-business credentials, painstakingly established in the mid-1990s, had been torched.
Over my holiday vacation I fielded more than one question about what I thought of "Spider-Man," and had to painstakingly explain that while it was (obviously) being performed, occasionally to disastrously newsworthy effect, the show was not yet open to critics.
How can you presume, really, to think what "Scott Fitzgerald" thought, to take the reins from a painstakingly professional writer and give him his "own" words?
Just before an old Syracuse church building was sold for conversion to a restaurant, conservators painstakingly cut out sculptures from a basement wall that are thought to be the work of escaping slaves who hid there.
