Ms. Samson, for example, said she took her acting seriously and used to prepare studiously for her roles, like the character she played in the 2006 movie "Flasher".
We all prepare studiously for job interviews, doing our homework about our potential employers and compiling short but detailed stories to illustrate our accomplishments, but how in the world do we prep for an off-the-wall interview question?
But as dazzling as Woods's talent and work ethic on the range are, he is believed to be the first golfer to prepare so studiously for tournaments, especially the majors.
"It wasn't about people being heroes, it was just about being seamless," said Trott, who had prepared for the race head bowed and a study of concentration, studiously ignoring her fiance's progression to the semi-finals of the men's sprint.
Last month, as the Czechs prepared to vote in a crucial referendum on whether to join the European Union, Mr. Klaus and other politicians studiously avoided calling loudly and clearly for the Czechs to vote themselves into the union.
As Mr. Ohlsson tore into the relentless double-octave outburst in the first movement, one woman in an aisle seat studiously read the erudite program notes as if preparing for a postconcert exam.
Prepare, prepare, prepare.
If American officials have made such preparations, they have studiously avoided disclosing them.
The wording was studiously innocuous.
He was studiously, consciously unpaternal.
They studiously furnished their minds.
