Word: belaboring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights in deciding what Reagan should and should not know. "It doesn't make any sense," said a committee staffer. "This man wants you to believe that he risked the entire presidency on a set of decisions he thought were either too controversial or too unimportant to belabor the President with." Senate Panel Chairman Daniel Inouye called Poindexter's testimony "incredible, mind boggling, chilling...
...enroll in whichever of those four courses on literary theory is offered. They don't want to take it courses for concentration credit. They aren't looking for the easy grade (they sure as heck aren't going to find one, anyway). They are not, to belabor the point, attempting to fulfill elusive distribution requirements. What the University should find exciting about this interest is that it's an example of what every liberal arts education is supposed to contain and so sporadically does: study for study's sake. Those who flock to hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney...
...Amato's dinner had been interrupted by a prank call from Congressman Guy Molinari of Staten Island. Convinced that his old friend was prolonging the joke, D'Amato bellowed into the telephone, "Molinari, you creep, cut out this crap!" After identifying himself, the President did not have to belabor his cause before obtaining the mortified D'Amato's support...
...would be trite to belabor the virtues of Shakespeare's text. The Theater Works production is a remarkably unelaborated and essentially solid enactment of that classic...
...number of responses to this letter have already pointed out some of the special burdens--financial, professional, and personal--which a graduate student suffers under, and I do not wish to belabor this point. But I would like to point out some of the subtler and more insidious implications lurking behind the outraged surface of "Harvard Parent's" diatribe I cannot, for one thing, accept the implied assumption that all marking, all writing, and indeed all thinking is possible only under strictly controlled and "professional" conditions, that should not vary according to the character and circumstances of student and instructor...