Word: laboredness
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While Kaplan's dialogue generally rings true, her descriptions sometimes seem labored. Most annoying is her virtual addiction to placing two adjectives in front of every noun:
The problem is that George Reyes has never written a paper longer than 15 pages. He is having trouble structuring his research, and trouble turning his notes into paragraphs of clear academic prose. So the new 31 pages seem labored at times, wordy in many places. Reyes's adviser read...
The guidelines, issued by a two-month-old Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, were intended to implement a declaration by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 which, among other things, had declared that all Jews could not be blamed for the death of Jesus. That document, for...
The political unity that the Market's founders hoped would come with the elimination of national barriers has proved a chimera, and the 7,000-man Common Market Commission in Brussels has devoted much of its time to the minutiae of trade. It labored for months over a Europe...
Such talk would probably have brought a haughty sneer from John L. Lewis, the union's legendary leader from 1920 to 1960, whose autocratic legacy still burdens the U.M.W. In his early days, however, Lewis was a mighty force for progress. Only a decade or so before he took...