laboriousness

• “It is incredibly funny, and while it does occasionally meander with the laboriousness of a test match, the heart of this expansive novel isn't just about cricket.”

  The Guardian: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review

• “This year's labor of laboriousness, hosted by a game but ultimately defeated Jane Lynch revealing that even this versatile talent couldn't rise above such mediocre material, was thankfully enlivened by a number of surprise and/or very deserving wins, especially when the drama categories kicked in.”

  Roush Review: The 2011 Emmys

• “Samaranch schemed for years to be appointed to the Olympic committee, sending unsolicited letters to its president, Avery Brundage, eulogizing in one of them the American's 'intelligence, laboriousness and love for [the] Olympic idea' and in another promising, 'I will entirely devote myself to go with your personality and prominent work.”

  The Huffington Post: Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch

• “Elizabeth gives so much of herself -- despite the pain, despite the exhaustion, despite the laboriousness of the task -- to give a little something to people she doesn't know.”

  Last Saturday and the piece of sky and trees

• “Kottke posts a brilliant rant on the incredible laboriousness of being poly-FOAFed:”

  Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives

• “In one of his letters 4 October 1841 to Captain Beaufort he sounded discouraged by the laboriousness of the work and the fact that he apparently had had no acknowledgement of the data he had sent to the Royal Society.”

  "But They are Very, Very Wrong" « Climate Audit

• “Maurice — not with much justice considering the laboriousness of his life.”

  Tales of all countries

• “She wondered if he did not understand the laboriousness of the smile with which she listened to”

  Main Street

• “The Essays display both the laboriousness and the delight of thinking.”

  Michel de Montaigne

• ““Copyist,” who blamed me for the excessive laboriousness and solid deliberation of my work, knew that!”

  The Insulted and the Injured

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