What is "painstakingly"

Usage examples of "painstakingly".

Painstakingly, by mid-watch lantern light, when the manipulations of letters are most apt to produce other kinds of illumination, Tchitcherine transliterates the opening sura of the holy Koran into the proposed NTA, and causes it to be circulated among the Arabists at the session, over the name of Igor Blobadjian.

Nate and Seth huddled together, both engrossed in the bobwhite quail that Seth painstakingly carved.

Daish Reik had laughed and clapped Kheda on the shoulder, brushing into oblivion the pattern of both earthly and heavenly compasses that he had so painstakingly drawn in the sand to illustrate some earlier point.

Culverins and demiculverins are long-range guns, painstakingly cast of fine bell bronze and hellishly expensive, designed to use a smaller caliber, lighter-weight ball, to provide finer accuracy at a distance than could any cannon.

He had tried so hard with the child, painstakingly teaching him, trying to fill Gryllus with thoughts of honour, loyalty, duty and courage.

Under their arms they carry the harps that they painstakingly built during their first year of study.

And now, when mother and daughter had been coaxed to Mildenhurst, off went John into Leicestershire, so that all the scheming so painstakingly undertaken on his behalf seemed likely to be wasted.

And while the assortment of Masterson heirlooms the current curator has so lovingly and painstakingly collected is impressive, there is only one item unique to Masterson Manor, one item which has drawn the museologist along the twisted lanes and remote byways that lead to Trecombe: The Masterson Bed.

Some of the nomes found Dorcas painstakingly levering it along across the quarry floor, one link at a time.

They did not bother to unlace the ropes from the grommets one by one, as they had so painstakingly laced them together, but simply pulled a rope end so it whipped out of a series of grommets in one yank.

At breakfast the next morning Annis, struggling to keep some kind of conversation going, painstakingly worked her way through the weather, Mike, and then the weather again, until his remote politeness stilled her tongue.

Whereas before she had thought herself lucky to find in a store an attractive dress that hundreds of other women would also wear, these had been painstakingly assembled just for her, from the sheer underwear and nightgowns that were made from the finest lawn and silk, with lace created by nuns, of all people, to the day dresses and gowns of every color of the rainbow.

I would argue that, for neurobiologists concerned with learning and memory, the legacy of this period of experimental psychology, always excluding Hebb, is not its theoretical constructs, its painstakingly accumulated phenomenology, the minutiae of schedules of reinforcement or of conditioning chains.

During the decade of the 1950s he had painstakingly used the famed Swedish micro-methods to measure the oxygen utilization and the DNA, RNA and protein composition of such isolated cells, comparing the biochemistry of the neurons with that of their surrounding glia.

The artist had painstakingly added so many fine penstrokes of shading and texturing, his concern for detail growing as his sight diminished, that he had left no tiniest strip or dot of plaster uncovered.