Word: belabored
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Matthew Johnson's editorial "Time to Put Women in Drag, Too" (Opinion, Dec. 10) is both historically inaccurate and fundamentally misrepresentative. We do not want to belabor his lack of research, but if he wishes to open a dialogue about the status of the Pudding show, as he claims, he should have contacted someone on our board in order to get his facts straight...
McCurry's frustrations have at times spilled over into the briefing room. One week into the scandal, he told reporters, "I think you all know the constraint that I'm laboring under here, and I don't want to belabor the pain and anguish I feel." Two weeks ago the spokesman himself became the story, when he suggested to a Chicago Tribune reporter that Clinton's ultimate explanation of his relationship with Lewinsky was not likely to be simple or innocent. (McCurry later explained his comments as "a lapse in my sanity.") Even McCurry's famous jokes...
...want to belabor this issue because to us it seems self-evident, but last week's announcement has forced us to. We will fight for our halogens because they are indispensable to us; if money is the issue that is really worrying the administration (it spends roughly $156,000 per year on energy for halogens), then we sincerely hope that it will reconsider, provide better lighting in the dorm rooms, or at least have the guts to admit its motivations. As it stands now, we do not think that the potential hazard of halogens outweighs their outstanding and necessary benefit...
...anti-Semitic historical revisionists and homophobic gay-bashers have the right to try to argue their cases. This point has probably been discussed in thousands of editorials and academic treatises and should be obvious to any conscientious member of American society; I certainly hope I don't need to belabor the argument here...
...throne, but the same issues of competition for parental love arise in an Arthur Miller play. In fact, the dysfunctional royal family shares more in common with today's families than with Medieval ones. These and other modern themes strengthen Lion in Winter, even though Haner does not belabor the play's contemporary relevance...