Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would think this liberation would make the sport slightly less laborious. Not at all. Skating remains one of the most arduous athletic endeavors a child can pursue. To be an Olympic-caliber competitor in any sport requires tremendous devotion at an early age, but a youngster who desires to be the best on ice faces special demands. Serious training can easily cost $40,000 a year in coaching fees, costumes, skates and living expenses. The little prodigy who can already do a double flip rarely lives near one of the dozen or so shrines where the top coaches preside: either...
...eternal damnation inspired a belief in winged spirits who could move easily between the layers of the universe. Angels were said to move the stars, spin the planets, make plants grow and help creatures reproduce. They were there to do God's bidding, but also to ease man's arduous journey from corporeal to spiritual life...
Life or art? Both. Freud insists that he always lets his sitters take their own natural poses, rather than setting them up -- as well they might, given the arduous business of being painted for 80 sittings or more under the glare of the 200-watt bulbs in his studio. But whether by accident or design, flashbacks to past art do crop up regularly...
Actually, the President's own rhetoric portrays gun control only as a necessary first step in a far more arduous journey. In his speeches last week, and especially in his powerful sermon in a Memphis, Tennessee, church last month, Clinton has cast violence as a moral crisis, with its roots in the breakdown of family and community. Every initiative, from welfare reform to health care to job training, becomes a means of fighting crime. "There are a lot of things we have to do in this country to get the violence under control that relate to rebuilding our communities...
...variant on the familiar sex-and-salvation theme. Elizabeth Parkinson plays a sort of fairy who transforms bystanders into lovers with a wand crowned, rather like a car's hood ornament, by a heart. Unfortunately, Moulton makes the song Purple Rain into a dismal solo that looks arduous to dance and provides little enlightenment, emotional or otherwise...