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Nin painstakingly copied into her diary her worst review, from among many bad reviews, by Elizabeth Hardwick, no less, who declared ‘no writer I can think of has more passionately embraced thin air’ and described her work as ‘vague, dreamy, mercilessly pretentious’.

Getting Published « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The man grimaces, but he signs his name painstakingly, gripping the stand.

Chicago Reader 2010

She read the titles painstakingly: "Corn in California," "Silage

The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

You follow each and every word painstakingly, like watching grass grow.

What I cooked last night. 2007

BLITZER: Light teams are back at work for what's being called a painstakingly hard search for the missing aviator, Steve Fossett.

CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007 2007

I like the way my tongue goes over "painstakingly", doing it very carefully, like I'm doing tongue tip-toeing.

Saving the World by Saving My Words Sharon Bakar 2005

Being able to see it up close provides a view into the kind of painstakingly detailed work that not even the best binoculars could pick up.

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011

Being able to see it up close provides a view into the kind of painstakingly detailed work that not even the best binoculars could pick up.

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011

Dave Schulz, treasurer of the group, said the charter language was "painstakingly" reviewed by lawyers to retain the six district councilmen and to replace the six at-large councilmen with three "super-district" councilmen.

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Not surprisingly, we lack detailed statistical evidence on when and how sexual behavior itself changed, but sociologists David Harding and Christopher Jencks have painstakingly pieced together survey data from a variety of sources on when and how norms changed, and specifically on the question of whether premarital sex was right or wrong.2

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010