He has undertaken the type of assiduous research that makes Women Writing About Money a fascinating history of the relations between economic details and gender in the period.

He attributed much of his success to assiduous research, calling his writing "fantasy with rivets," explaining that if he mentioned Roman armor he would report precisely how it was made.

No reasonable person would declare India to be a feminist paradise, but Ms. Dworkin's unsubstantiated allegations show more of a superheated imagination than assiduous research.

Reviewing the second volume here in 1985, Francis Davis said, "Chambers deserves praise for his assiduous research as well as for his insightful criticism."

Yet he is the MP fingered in Balls's assiduous research as the MP with most memberships of the 450 such groups - 151 no less.

The author, who is 61, has done assiduous research, drink in hand, on many a jacaranda-scented veranda.

The film also records many period details and hardships, showing the assiduous research that marks this as a personal history for Ms. Hatta and her sister Mari, who wrote the screenplay together.

That is the stuff of high drama, which requires not merely assiduous research or verbatim testimonials, but an imaginative writer able to transform raw data into felt life on the page.

She keeps an apartment in South Kensington, and in preparation for each book she visits England for a relatively brief period and does assiduous research on location.

In her assiduous research into the cemetery's history, Mrs. Brown has gone so far as to descend into one of the vaults, to determine if it was built to specifications.