He preserved his sanity, he told friends, by painstakingly writing on rolls of toilet paper 16 long essays on political liberalization.

Parts of the manuscript, which I saw at the home of his widow, Irina, are indecipherable: the composer, right-handed but now paralyzed on his right side, painstakingly wrote with his left hand.

After months of painstakingly writing and rewriting the ceremony, she left it at home in Colorado when she went to the wedding.

William painstakingly wrote this down, too, and closed his notebook.

He takes cheap, mass-produced lithographs which he finds in secondhand thrift stores and painstakingly writes phrases or words on them in a glossy, 3-D style.

Shadow watched as Wednesday apologized to the man, then made him sign the clipboard, checked his deposit slip, painstakingly wrote nun out a receipt and puzzled over which copy to keep, and, finally, opened his big black metal case and put the man's sack inside.

She took the pen and paper and wrote painstakingly.

Borrowing a slogan from the United Negro College Fund, she painstakingly wrote in each book, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

As Lulu the hotel parrot screeched in the background and ceiling fans whirled, an employee, Ann Marie Craven, painstakingly wrote the guests' names in a large ledger.

With the provider helping move his hand, he painstakingly wrote a crude "R." She commented, "Roberto's very proud."