pains-taking

A Chinese-language editorial on the newspaper ' s web site described North Korea ' s actions as a public humiliation of the surrounding big countries ' pains-taking diplomatic efforts.

China Acknowledges Dead in Korea Incident Jeremy Page 2010

Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and careful scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its success.

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

True talent, pains-taking and honorable talent does not act thus.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

She would fain keep some one thing — the smallest of them alL She doubts — till a feeling of maidenly reserve constrains her at last, and the coveted trifle, with careful, pains-taking fingers, is put with the rest, and the parcel is made complete, and the address is written with precision.

The Claverings 2005

And when the music ceased and the mist profited, we corroborated not the Land of Cathuria, but a pains-taking earthly sea, over which our outraged barque was borne toward some remedial goal.

Think Progress » Rushing to Pull the Race Card 2005

But the price of his craftsmanship was the slow, pains-taking pace at which he worked, and that took its economic toll on him; and so after a short period as a free-lance writer he began supplementing his income with editorial work.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

I take all the time, pains-taking, to set up all the pins exactly, precisely, equal distance apart and conformed correctly.

Thursday? *sigh* 2000

One of his hobbies is photography and here his artistic talent, bolstered by his diligence and pains-taking attention to perfection, have earned him the amateur award in the Cannes Film Festival twice.

Are Canadians Simply Americans on Snowshoes? 1970

His heart was in the work of Heeren, easily the greatest of historical critics then living, and the forerunner of the modern school; it was from this master that Bancroft caught his enthusiasm for minute pains-taking erudition.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The latter is not, however, as in past times, from the Newcastle Anti-slavery Society, for, I am sorry to say, it is not a sufficiently pains-taking and executive little body, but more apt to work by fits and starts, but from our private friends, who kindly place their money in our hands as their

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still