Especially as the bartenders studiously work on Negronis for someone else, or pull carafes of riesling from a tap and ignore you.
For Mr. Obama, the move marked an unusual return to Illinois politics, turf from which he had studiously worked to distance himself throughout the presidential race.
They drew chalk lines on the field, studiously working around the crime scene.
The former British prime minister long ago defied the conventional wisdom that women can gain power only by studiously working behind the scenes to forge consensus.
There were no showboating scenes and powerhouses speeches from Mueller in this series - we only ever saw him studiously working in his office.
Young Buck appears on a handful of tracks on the new album, but here the group studiously worked around them (and avoided the first G-Unit album, "Beg for Mercy," altogether), barely addressing him at all save for a couple of throwaway comments: "Shorty wanna cry with me?" 50 Cent asked, referring to Young Buck's biggest hit, "Shorty Wanna Ride".
Although this book studiously avoids the O-word — old — in reference to its subjects, it notes that the 77-year-old Mr. Gordy is "working on a secret health regimen that he promises will change the quality of life for seniors".
For many months, Romney has spent his flights working studiously on his iPad, scrolling through policy briefings, revising his speeches and jotting his thoughts in a campaign journal.
Adherents are drawn not just by its studiously unembellished furniture, housewares and clothing, but by its semimystical retail mission to sell objects that are "nothing, yet everything," as Kenya Hara, a celebrated Japanese graphic designer who has worked on Muji, has said.
Still, Lin kept arriving early, leaving late, devouring film and working studiously with Silas and later Lloyd Pierce.
Like his Venezuelan counterpart Gustavo Dudamel, Mr. Harth-Bedoya has been working studiously to bring more Hispanic music into the repertory.
