painstaking

It would take several years of quiet, painstaking work, and it would begin with Zuckerman’s ascent.

From books about bisexuality, to Polaroid pictures of Nick and Charlie together, they’ve gone to painstaking lengths to make the bedroom a true reflection of the character's journey throughout the series.

Throughout it all, the 23-year-old has been grappling with the very thing a sportsperson tries to protect: Bell has been going through a painstaking remodelling of her action.

Thousands of documents were presented by the prosecution and pored over in many months of painstaking examination.

While the divers’ painstaking work to recover the dead has ended, the investigators’ painful hunt for answers has only begun.