Harris, whose previous novels include "Pompeii" and the World War II thriller "Enigma," doesn't take the path of many other writers of historical fiction and provide copious, painstaking descriptions of meals, wardrobes, palaces and the like to summon a long-ago, far-away past.
In The Annotated Turing, Petzold – one of the great explicators of our time – provides a painstaking, line-by-line and dazzlingly lucid reading of Turing's famous 36-page paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous book's genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learning that, besides Henry Gray, the brilliant scholar and surgeon who wrote the text, another anatomist was crucial to the book's popularity: Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided its painstaking drawings.
"The Hungry Steppe offers a valuable contribution to the historical record by providing the first painstaking, English-language examination of the Kazakh famine". "A valuable addition...
Now, with lidar, thousands of acres of dense jungle can be finely mapped in a few hours, with greater accuracy than the most painstaking ground survey can provide.
Now, with lidar*,* thousands of acres of dense jungle can be finely mapped in a few hours, with greater accuracy than the most painstaking ground survey can provide.
The effect of this painstaking scholarship is to provide a vivid sense of authenticity, all the more necessary in a story whose very foundations shift in the treacherous sands of rumor and political opportunism.
The study marks the first use of a painstaking method that should provide a reliable planetary "scale".
The maquettes provide rare insight into an unimaginably painstaking process, illuminating the origins for every proceeding brushstroke.
Although cell culture can be a painstaking process, large production lots should provide economies of scale.
