Word: arduous
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...pretty amazing when you have one guy who is driving the creative experience like that.”A few years later, Moore, Damon and Affleck continued their collaboration with “Project Greenlight,” a documentary about making independent films.The three friends went through the arduous process of finding the money and resources to produce the program. “It was later that we had the idea of the TV show as the way to do the documentary, and kind of in classic Hollywood fashion once we realized we could sell it all we decided...
...enjoy better working conditions than factory workers or teachers. The function of an actress was primarily to entertain the masses, so besides appearing in films, she often gave performances in factories, rural communes, coal mines and oil fields, traveling with her unit all over China. It was an arduous life, but she believed she was rendering service to her country and its people. Now, as she munched her sandwiches, she told me about the day's events at her film studio. ''I spent the whole day writing Big Character Posters for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were told that...
...added that unearthing the roots of binge eating is an arduous task because it is unclear how environment and genetics factor into the disorder...
Singer's radically utilitarian brand of moral philosophy has its work cut out for it. In the absence of arduous cranial wrestling matches, reason may indeed be, as Hume famously put it, "slave of the passions...
...Greg Mortenson was rescued by residents of Korphe, a remote village high in the Pakistani Himalayas. Grateful for their assistance, Mortenson vowed to build the villagers a school. He returned home to San Francisco, sold everything he owned (including his precious climbing gear), and then embarked on the most arduous quest of his career. Three Cups of Tea, co-written by journalist David Oliver Relin, is the account of Mortenson's extraordinary effort to give a school to Korphe and many other villages in the Taliban heartland. After 13 years in which he has brought 55 schools to Pakistan...