Once it is known that Ma doesn't want to be there, the careful, painstakingly constructed framework of the characters' days takes on a new tenor.

In fact, each photograph is of a painstakingly constructed three-dimensional copy of a Thiebaud painting.

The landscape provided Redgrave with an opportunity for poetic reflection that his painstakingly constructed genre scenes apparently did not.

Tables were painstakingly constructed for prosthaphaeresis with values for every second, or 3600th of a degree.

In the Scrushy trial, prosecutors have painstakingly constructed what many legal authorities say appears to be a much more compelling case.

The seafood dishes, like Oceana's, are often complex and painstakingly constructed.

It has been a long time since pop records documented live performances; instead, their simulation of them is constructed painstakingly in the studio.

His latest book (his 13th) looks broadly and historically at the political world the conservative coalition has painstakingly constructed over the last several decades.

He had painstakingly constructed a lie to hide his own guilt, and he must tell this lie just so.

On that ground, an anti-totalitarian community was painstakingly constructed, a democratic polis in the world of oppressive dictatorship.