In fact Smith maintains that his songs are drawn from a series of recollections studiously written down over the years.
He meticulously researches and studiously avoids writing anything that resembles his own life.
Call me a wildly unreconstructed misogynist – ideally in an article which studiously discounts everything I have written about sexism before – but those characteristics are considerably more troubling to me than whatever dreary badinage Scudamore exchanges in private with one of his dreary-sounding mates.
At this solo rehearsal, while he awaited Ms. Whittle's return from a much-needed break, he repeatedly practiced his crucial mime scene, studiously consulting Ms. Whittle's notes (written in a "Little Prince" journal, naturally).
The memo was written more than three months ago, and its studiously formal language suggests it could be a parody.
In hundreds of years, when the historical debates Ms. Lin studiously sidestepped may be forgotten, the names of the men will be what remain written in stone.
It is studiously attentive to jazz of the last 40 years, specifically, a line of small-group composers like Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Andrew Hill and Marty Ehrlich, all of whom have written fairly romantic music while experimenting with rhythm and harmony.
Mr. Ritchie has preserved Ms. Wertmüller's basic story and studiously copied some of her shots -- the Mediterranean, you will be happy to hear, still sparkles -- but he has in effect written a chapter of "Lina Wertmüller for Dummies," or turned a fable of love and domination into a 90-minute television spot for some unspoiled island getaway.
Sitting in the dock, he spent most of the day writing notes and studiously avoided looking back at the public gallery.
Where the novel is stubbornly unsentimental, Mr. Hallstrom's camera beautifies everything it beholds, leaving you "with the unfulfilled sense of having leafed through an elegant, studiously captioned photo essay," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
My copy of Derrida's "Writing and Difference" is studiously dog-eared and scrupulously annotated; there are excited check-marks of assent next to passages that I can no longer make head or tail of, and probably understood little better at the time.
