Word: arduousness
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...actors; and for them it can be actively disabling, because any subject taught to a serious acting student which is approached from an academic, scientific or any other point of view but that of the theater--voice, movement, character, style, freedom and personal reality--may endanger his slow and arduous artistic development...
...often costumed, not clothed, and--except for the fantastical Rumour--this just fails. Some of his soldiers wear heraldic outfits, which for some reason makes them look like figures out of Tenniel's illustrations for Alice. Glendower looks as if he might glow in the dark. Messengers arrive from arduous journeys looking neat and clean. In contrast to the uneveness of Armstrong's work is David Amram's uniformly fine music, highlighted by a charming Welsh song...
...most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make us leap higher." Although she now lives in a terrace apartment on Manhattan's East Side, Graham maintains the Spartan life her arduous art calls for: no drinking, daily workouts on the barre. And she is as uncompromising as ever in her approach to her audience. "I want to make people feel intensely alive," says she. "I'd rather have them against me than indifferent...
...Reason, John Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives often ripped babies' heads from shoulders in the course of arduous labor. The cliquish Corporation of Surgeons had a near monopoly on cadavers for dissection; private anatomy teachers were forced to traffic with the "sack-'em-up men"-the body snatchers...
Christopher and edited by Thomas Griffith, analyzes the population problem in 4,000 words. It is the product of an arduous and expensive month for scores of topflight journalists, a method for producing news coverage that is as authoritative as it is timely...