Word: arduousness
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...took turns raping her. "They told me, 'If you cry, if you make a noise we'll beat you'," she recalls, in a quiet voice, her eyes downcast. Debbie says she was raped almost every night for the next six months. And every day, she was put through an arduous physical training program that included push-ups and 20-km runs. She was also trained how to kill: by strangling with shoelaces, by stabbing with a knife. "They told me it's a secret for life. 'If you tell anyone you'll be killed.'" Debbie tried to escape the camp...
...accomplishing anything by themselves. On one occasion I was beckoned upstairs by a distraught woman who needed the help of the electrician. When I informed her that he had left for the day and offered my services, she questioned my ability to successfully perform the task. After an arduous interrogation, she revealed her intensely technical request: a light bulb change...
Undeterred, FM headed to the Registrar’s Office. After an arduous trek up Garden Street that evoked some sort of sympathy for Quadlings, FM was sent back to the Yard with no info. Tons of phone calls to the Registrar and answering machine messages later, FM was still at the start of the journey. Next stop: the deans...
Drawn from his official reports and private papers, Thomson depicts in matter-of-fact prose arduous months of roaming harsh northeastern Arnhem Land with indigenous guides. Unlike in other areas, where Aborigines had already been dispersed, regular interracial contact was new there, and traditional life intact. Thomson's determination to live as the locals did - learning the language, eating bush food and attending sacred ceremonies - makes for a compelling insider's view. The objects of study soon became companions, as he realized when he left to write his final report: "I knew and loved the Arnhem Land people...
Self-Portraits begins with a shot of Alcalay performing his most arduous daily task: the morning climb to his third-story studio. Alcalay mounts the stairs with a cane, one hand gripping the rail. The artist himself is narrating, as he does for most of the film, describing painting, in this moment of hardship, as the “pinch...