Word: laboredness
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The Chinese crackdown on criminals [Jan. 30] seems uncivilized to Westerners. Yet we have labored for two centuries to perfect a fair judicial system, only to find ourselves bound in a cumbersome process that often prevents justice from prevailing. We should learn from the Chinese.
During 1981 and 1982, while engineers and programmers labored over the Lisa and the Mac, the competition that developed between the divisions sometimes verged on fratricide. At one point a pirate flag flapped above the Mac building as an expression of battle. The Mac team was often condescending about the...
Colette's preparatory sketches for her masterworks Chéri (1920) and The Last of Chéri (1926) show how hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called...
Getting serious also means getting down to business and avoiding the abundance of visual bromides that pelt down on most videos like a fine acid rain. There are honorable, even commanding exceptions (see box), but the majority of clips now in circulation are labored ephemera with heavily imitative associations, fully...
(3 of 10) solemnity and mythmaking amusing, and hopelessly overdone. His intellectual style was sardonic and self-aware: wonderful lights of satire played across it. If he sometimes labored hard at being a hero, or seeming a hero (before his election in 1960, he listened intently to recordings of Winston...