Sentence examples for painstakingness from inspiring English sources

The latter typically shows more observation and care, and evinces more skill or painstakingness in the working; in short, manifests the marks of quality.

Instead we get meticulous dissections of souring relationships, and while Grondahl's painstakingness is impressive (and Anne Born's translation is unvaryingly graceful), it's hard not to feel that life might be easier for these unhappy people, and for the reader, if every once in a while somebody cracked a joke.