Sentence examples for taking pains with from inspiring English sources

She was, Stanton realized, taking pains with her speech.

If the satiny robes on his Klansmen seem too lovingly sewn, perhaps that is because he is an old-fashioned artist who can't help taking pains with whatever he makes.

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By the nineteen-thirties, he seems too preoccupied to take pains with his style.

In Chicago, James had tried to kill himself over an unrequited love, having taken pains with the décor of his death scene: flickering candles, gilded mirrors, an ether-soaked handkerchief.

For ages I didn't mind being a glamour figure, but thank god I'm getting older (he's 41)." But he grudgingly admits, "Everything that's an asset is useful," which explains why he takes pains with his appearance when he thinks people will notice.

Yet his sloppiness as a stylist and the hopelessly rushed quality of his structures — he took pains with his beginnings but raced to the end of his books, as though late for dinner — has damaged his reputation since, at least in English.

The beauty editor Andrea Pomerantz Lustig believes that the best way to look like a million bucks when your outfit costs less than your lunch is to take pains with your hair, makeup and skin care, using tips she has compiled over a lifetime.

RIM also took pains with the phone's design, giving it contoured corners and "chrome" side accents.

He wrote confidentially to his friend Helen Mary Gaskell (known as May), "The armour is good they have taken pains with it... Perceval looked the one romantic thing in it.

But the group is taking pains to ally itself with less-glamorous fields.