Word: laboredness
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In eight years they made 16 films, most of them labored and plot heavy. But as a live act, Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if...
It was a topsy-turvy life. In those first 34 years Williams flunked many classes and lost many jobs; scrounged meals and dodged creditors; drifted around the country, in amorous pursuit of men and, occasionally, women; and labored--relentlessly, indefatigably--on poems, stories, plays.
For weeks he labored painstakingly to find just the right words: balancing regret for a fading century's horror with the promise borne by the approaching millennium. During his fourth trip to the U.S. last week, Pope John Paul II visited New York, New Jersey and Maryland, but the centerpiece...
While many of the first-years in the working on The Food Project had never labored on a farm, they found one member of their class well-schooled in manual labor and good old fashioned hard work.
On the evidence of the excerpts, the Unabomber is a rather bland but careful writer, fastidious about his grammar; "to be able personally to influence" is his somewhat labored way of avoiding a split infinitive. In another passage, lambasting white liberals who champion black culture, he writes, "But in what...