I stopped and tried to freeze the moment: There I was, gritty, grimy and exhausted from a day of clambering and bumping and sloshing through the jungle, surrounded by bulbous leaves and drooping, dripping branches and vines, balanced precariously on mossy, vine-woven rocks, gazing at a tower of stone blocks, placed painstakingly block by block, hand by human hand, some eight centuries before.
Some touches, like the painstakingly placed green apples at the check-in desk, are style clichés borrowed from boutique hotels.
First, I painstakingly placed mint leaves in the bottom of the glass.
First, I painstakingly placed mint leaves in the bottom of glass.
We'd sat together days earlier doing the seed prep, filling containers with soil, poking little holes and then painstakingly placing the seeds in them.
When he stands in the kitchen to tell me how to arrange the dishes in his dishwasher, when he grabs a soiled bowl and painstakingly places it directly in the space of another bowl, unable for a minute or so to recognize that the two bowls cannot occupy the same location, so too does his new personality, when I let it, cause the eventual displacement and softening of his old.
Salcedo, horrified, placed in a Bogotá gallery stacks of painstakingly folded white shirts, coated in plaster.
The elegant animal statues were painstakingly pieced together in Berlin and placed in the reconstructed gate.
Mr. Bellantoni and his colleagues agree they probably won't ever know who painstakingly dug the five distinct sites and carefully placed a collection of items -- including two truly ancient objects -- underground.
The same stranger might linger over the heart-shaped pendant, also painstakingly carved from Perspex by the nuns, who placed tiny pictures of my mother's parents, no bigger than a thumbnail, into the hollowed heart of the necklace.
To create them, Mr. Nawa painstakingly maps out where to place each sphere, studying how each reflects and distorts the textures of the deer's coat.
