Word: belaboring
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Perhaps it’s counterproductive to belabor animal suffering in the way that Foer does; those who eat meat often argue that it is irrelevant to apply the same morality we do to human suffering. Foer makes an excellent argument that for himself and much of his audience meat is nutritionally unnecessary and ecologically harmful, but using a moral argument to evince a change in people’s daily lives may be ineffective. Foer’s facts are visceral and damning for those who sympathize, but they may not be enough...
...Unfortunately, you will not find butternut-squash dumplings, but the stuffed artichokes are to die for. And I still mourn the loss of Sloppy Louie's at South and Fulton streets, where I learned to eat fish. It served a bouillabaisse that was extraordinary. There were others, but why belabor the point? And that's only in New York City...
...property. But they are outside the jurisdiction of the university. There is nothing Harvard can do to compel them to behave differently than they do—the best people on either side of the debate can do is to make first-years aware of social alternatives, but to belabor the point against them seems almost masochistic...
...girl from the special economic zone.” Their relative obscurity is particularly frustrating because the Jews are more “authentic” than Adams (who is more of a pastiche artist than a true country troubadour) and they never belabor listeners with ponderous sonic experiments a la Wilco (see the last ten minutes of their 11-minute long krautwank epic “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”). If any album were to break through to the other side of popularity, this is it. “Punks In the Beerlight” is a rollicking...
...soon as the American delegation arrived at the Soviet mission for Wednesday's round of talks, Reagan once again asked his host if he would like to have a private chat. The touchy subject of human rights was on the President's mind. He did not want to belabor the issue for fear of stiffening Soviet resistance. But in the privacy of a small sitting room in the Soviet mission, he told Gorbachev that if the Soviets truly want to improve relations with the U.S., they must repair their record on individual freedom. It is morally repugnant...