He blackened the handle of the Doctor's bag with painstaking thoroughness and awaited further instructions.

Then he undertook a methodical search, working with a rapid yet painstaking thoroughness which missed nothing.

Her painstaking thoroughness, and her energetic application, were as remarkable at this time as in later years.

That work was done with a painstaking thoroughness, and the committee's final report was very unpleasant reading.

ARIA upon aria, gesture upon gesture, movement upon stage: out of such things are operas constructed with painstaking thoroughness.

These oaks, far larger than any to which we are accustomed, bear witness to the painstaking thoroughness of the Dutch.

For the marks he remembered so clearly had been obliterated with painstaking thoroughness, and at first the slate seemed perfectly clean.

But, beginning his own quest with a painstaking thoroughness which omitted no chance however remote, he spent the day in seeking.

Twice during that time the Police camp moved, and we had to be wary, for they scoured the surrounding territory with painstaking thoroughness.