What is "painstaking"

Usage examples of "painstaking".

Park of Extinct Animals was breached and many of the inner enclosures were opened, releasing into the wilderness nearly the entire extraordinary collection of carefully cloned beasts of yesteryear: moas, quaggas, giant ground sloths, dodos, passenger pigeons, aurochs, oryxes, saber-toothed cats, great auks, cahows and many another lost species that had been called back from oblivion by the most painstaking manipulation of fossil genetic material.

It had its beginnings in the final quarter of the last century, and decades of the most painstaking and demanding research were required before the etiology of pneumonia, scarlet fever, meningitis, and the rest could be worked out.

No doubt pyridin and furfural are factors in the drug effects of tobacco, but recent painstaking experiments by high authorities have shown the presence of nicotin in tobacco smoke, and when we reflect that there is sometimes sufficient nicotin in an ordinary cigar to kill two men, it is not strange that enough of it may be absorbed from the smoke passing over the mucous membranes of the nose, throat and lungs to produce a distinct physiological effect.

It was a complex procedure, involving an alarm system and an arrangement of steel grilles, and she performed it with painstaking concentration.

Dismounting, I laid Powell upon the ground, but the most painstaking examination failed to reveal the faintest spark of life.

Robert Lecker, for his painstaking and careful editing, and to the editorial staff of Twayne Publishers for their generous and always productive assistance.

Leading this group of painstaking crime-busters was the selfsame Inspector Rason who had learned his craft in the shadow of Fidelity Dove!

Even those spies who had been exposed and captured in the sabha hallfools every one of themcould hardly match her mastery of the black arts, achieved through decades of painstaking, torturous effort.

Layer upon layer, the cumulative effect of his painstaking and detailed analysis is to suggest that we are deluding ourselves when we suppose that accurate instruments for measuring longitude were not invented until the eighteenth century.

When a slab of plasterboard came loose, Joe lugged it out to the backyard, freeing Pamela for the more painstaking work of scraping excess plaster from the counter and removing shreds of drywall from the vertical studs.

The drawings were painstaking, inexpert representations of the potto in different attitudes, tailless, anxious.

She was small and brown-haired, in a rumpled uniform, taking painstaking aim with a recoilless pistol.

She was not thoughtful and painstaking for the poor, because, though accustomed to a species of almsgiving, she heard nothing, saw nothing of nearer or higher association with her neighbours.

Their only consolation now is the realization that through her painstaking and sustained labours for the Cause in Auckland Mrs Blundell has left an abiding monument to her memory, and one which will continue for many years to come to inspire and strengthen them all in their collective endeavours for the establishment of the Faith in New Zealand.

She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborersthe painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.