Word: belabor
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...York, to demonstrate to a dubious world that women can not only play in every seat in an orchestra, but also conduct one--and not so incidentally, to give herself an opportunity to do just that. In 1939, having made her point, she saw no reason to belabor it, and so opened the orchestra to men as well. Unfortunately, with its novelty thus lost, the interest it had generated was lost as well--and shortly thereafter, the orchestra disbanded...
...Love You." Being a popularizer of linguistics is no easy task. When he gets to "paralanguage"-the meanings resident in the ways words are voiced -Farb begins to belabor the obvious. Every lover knows that "I love you" is a vocal variable, to be interpreted by the vibrations. In his enthusiasm for "body language"-the things said by facial expressions, gestures, posture -Farb goes far beyond most scholars of the new linguistics. "Pupil performance," he proclaims, "does not depend so much upon a school's audio-visual equipment or new textbooks or enriching trips to museums as it does...
...eyes of a skeptical public. The endorsement, complained Chairman Ronald Sarro of Washington's Evening Star-Daily News Guild unit, "gives ammunition to those looking for an excuse to attack the press on any grounds." It bothered even those who, while not at all anxious to belabor the press, feel that it should not only be fair but should also be seen to be fair...
...incident was the latest skirmish in a long war. Maier was unhappy with local coverage of the 1967 Milwaukee riots and the sympathetic press given Father James Groppi, who led street demonstrations in favor of an open-housing law. The mayor rarely misses an opportunity to belabor the Journal Co.'s monopoly, and he once tried to instigate a federal antitrust suit against the company...
...times--especially in the elaborate lighting effects of the great storm--Brook's style verges on the overenthusiastic, but his instincts manage to save him before style turns into self-indulgence. He doesn't belabor the black-and-white bleakness of the land-scape, just as he doesn't belabor the malice of the elder daughters, or the virtue of the youngest...