At one's fingertips, all is textural: walls are lined in natural cord, his signature material, meticulously applied and somehow both smooth and rough to the touch.

Part of it has to do with the treatment of wood, which the artist may rub intuitively after the paint has been meticulously applied.

As Hold away (1979) points out in relation to the teaching of reading, there is a set of universal conditions which facilitate success, and these need to be applied even more meticulously in the case of children who are experiencing difficulties.

It is the layers, meticulously applied, that keep P. D. Q. Bach from disappearing, giggling, into air vents above.

It was painted in bold colors, meticulously applied on those precise places where each color belonged.

Her makeup had been meticulously applied that morning, down to the dusky blue shadow that matched her eyes.

These wall-paintings have not only been executed in a perfect Byzantine style but they also are al-fresco, i.e. the paint had been applied meticulously to wet walls.

Eakins' methods appear to be meticulously applied, and rather than shortcuts, were likely used in a quest for accuracy and realism.

Textures and patternings are applied meticulously through acid-etching and hand-painting.

While the cost of a rink is minimal, maintaining one requires devotion: layers of water that are meticulously applied to plastic sheeting or straight onto a winter-brown lawn in December must be hosed down almost daily until March.