Researchers undertook a painstaking process to preserve the body. His school reports describe him as "docile, patient, diligent, painstaking, thorough". This whole painstaking process took two years. One such artist was Winsor McCay, who created detailed animation with painstaking attention to detail. She was a "faithful, judicious, and painstaking editor," Clemens wrote. Musicians originally crafted reeds from cane using simple tools, a time-consuming and painstaking process. Training a hawk was a painstaking process. The process takes over a year and is painstaking. Both machines are fully drivable and are reproduced in painstaking detail in the game. Works advanced slowly and with painstaking care; excavating was done manually, with spades. This unique approach sometimes led to painstaking lengths of time in the recording studio. The two-minute scene was brought to life in "painstaking detail". Everything she does has been subjected to painstaking analysis. The mirrors had to be hand-polished, a painstaking process. A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries.