Nor does painstaking archaeology of scenery or dresses any longer throw dust in our eyes.

When the youth had finally brought it to a point where West was convinced it was the very best Morse could do he had learned a lesson in thoroughness and painstaking attention to detail that he never forgot.

We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man,making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances.

They may well have been painstaking jottings to provide material for polite conversation and have sounded much better than they read in cold print.

Exquisite in coloring and in its harmony of tone and line, it betrayed in every careful detailin every mark of the brushthe thoughtful, painstaking carethe thorough knowledge and highly trained skill of an artist who was, at least, master of his own technic.