Word: belaboring
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...anti-Semitic historical revisionists and homophobic gay-bashers have the right to try to argue their cases. This point has probably been discussed in thousands of editorials and academic treatises and should be obvious to any conscientious member of American society; I certainly hope I don't need to belabor the argument here...
...throne, but the same issues of competition for parental love arise in an Arthur Miller play. In fact, the dysfunctional royal family shares more in common with today's families than with Medieval ones. These and other modern themes strengthen Lion in Winter, even though Haner does not belabor the play's contemporary relevance...
...lights in deciding what Reagan should and should not know. "It doesn't make any sense," said a committee staffer. "This man wants you to believe that he risked the entire presidency on a set of decisions he thought were either too controversial or too unimportant to belabor the President with." Senate Panel Chairman Daniel Inouye called Poindexter's testimony "incredible, mind boggling, chilling...
...enroll in whichever of those four courses on literary theory is offered. They don't want to take it courses for concentration credit. They aren't looking for the easy grade (they sure as heck aren't going to find one, anyway). They are not, to belabor the point, attempting to fulfill elusive distribution requirements. What the University should find exciting about this interest is that it's an example of what every liberal arts education is supposed to contain and so sporadically does: study for study's sake. Those who flock to hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney...
...Amato's dinner had been interrupted by a prank call from Congressman Guy Molinari of Staten Island. Convinced that his old friend was prolonging the joke, D'Amato bellowed into the telephone, "Molinari, you creep, cut out this crap!" After identifying himself, the President did not have to belabor his cause before obtaining the mortified D'Amato's support...