Word: arduous
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...seemed a quixotic notion: "Hey, guys, let's make a movie in a genre that went out of fashion when The Sound of Music came in; that will cost $100 million, require arduous location shooting and elaborate computer effects; whose director hasn't made a film grossing even $50 million domestically in 20 years; whose script will be retooled by three writers turning in new pages during shooting; and whose 'star' is a gifted actor but also, by all accounts, a severe rectal itch." We can hear the moguls chorusing: "Gladiator? Thumbs down...
...Harvard, where TFing levels can be just as arduous, the perspective is different...
Okay, okay, so I'm no Langston Hughes--I know that. But being privileged enough to attend this fine institution, I want to take a few paragraphs to talk to any high school seniors reading this column who are still in the midst of an arduous process I like to call the College Research and Admissions Process-- more succinctly, CRAP...
Pouring over the writing samples and debating which among the many highly qualified applicants to accept can be "complicated and arduous," Lewalski said...
...problem will be fixed completely by April 3, according to Associate Director for Building Services Robert L. Mortimer--but only after an arduous and expensive process of renovating the low-tech system...