Word: belabor
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...would be trite to belabor the virtues of Shakespeare's text. The Theater Works production is a remarkably unelaborated and essentially solid enactment of that classic...
...number of responses to this letter have already pointed out some of the special burdens--financial, professional, and personal--which a graduate student suffers under, and I do not wish to belabor this point. But I would like to point out some of the subtler and more insidious implications lurking behind the outraged surface of "Harvard Parent's" diatribe I cannot, for one thing, accept the implied assumption that all marking, all writing, and indeed all thinking is possible only under strictly controlled and "professional" conditions, that should not vary according to the character and circumstances of student and instructor...
...Such ethnic-bloc voting (or its equivalent among women voters) is a valid means in a democracy for the political empowerment of ethnic groups who must overcome the vicious forms of ethnic subordination and negation imposed upon then within American society. And, of course, it is hardly necessary to belabor the point that Afro-Americans have endured enormous ethnic subordination...
...White House would undoubtedly try to be more consistent in foreign policy and more given to international power politics (which should not be a dirty word). He would reduce Carter's moralistic emphasis on human rights, using that cause as propaganda against Communist countries, but not employ it to belabor U.S. allies, even if their regimes are dictatorial...
Europe's true long-term self-interest lies in working with the U.S. to stand against the Soviet Union politically and militarily so that, eventually, detente can be put back on track. Europe can and should belabor Washington all it wants in private to bring about a better strategy and a smoother partnership, but the destruction of a joint public front is extremely dangerous. Europe and the U.S. of course blame each other for damaging that united front, and Washington must carry its share of responsibility...