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Example sentences for: painstaking

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Self, it's surprising to discover, is a painstaking realist.
"Important," says the New York Times Book Review . "[B]rilliantly rendered," says the Weekly Standard . Praise goes to Lefkowitz's "painstaking" reporting.
Inventory control relied on painstaking, manual comparisons between sales records (paper receipts) and physical counts of items on the floor, in the back room, and in warehouses.
The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)
The whole process is both painstaking and expensive, and the “democratization” of the imperial institutions since the emperor renounced his divinity means the shrines (rather than the state) must now foot the bill.