painstaking

• The work was altogether so fine and painstaking, and showed such thought, care, taste and judgment, that, apart from my personal pleasure in it, I felt exceedingly proud, and happy at the complete and beautiful result... I am sorry you do not like “Current Events.” To me “Current Topics” means the fag end of everything we know and have been obliged to read about in the papers. —  Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June"
• I remember to this day the scene when Pierre and Marie completed the painstaking isolation of a tenth of a gram of radium from a ton of crude pitchblende. —  Omni: May 1993
• Recalling the painstaking routine work of his youth, he knocked on every door. —  A Guilty Thing Surprised
• "I know it's unusual to think of senators doing that kind of painstaking, thorough work, but that's exactly what we're doing," said Nelson, a fiscally conservative Democrat who also met with the president Wednesday. —  BangorDailyNews.com > News
• "It is unusual to think of senators actually doing that kind of painstaking, thorough work," said —  DailyHowler.com

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