Word: strenuous
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...styles of yoga exist, some very vigorous and demanding, some quite gentle. I couldn't be more pleased to see yoga becoming so mainstream in our part of the world; I think it will increase the numbers of healthier and happier people here. But I do not recommend the strenuous forms for everyone. Older people will do best with gentle forms of hatha yoga...
Harvard, whose own charter predates the Constitution by 137 years, is taking the new law sitting down, but several other universities have raised strenuous objections to the requirement...
...badly want Lincoln dead and silenced. That could sustain a long run, as well as intraprison intrigue, including a simmering racial rumble. And who knows? Maybe, 24-style, Scofield could break out of a bigger and better prison every season (Rikers Island! Guantánamo!). Sure, that would take some strenuous plotting gymnastics. But in its confident debut, Break shows that implausibility can be, well, captivating. --By James Poniewozik
...December 1943, I became a Naval Air Force Pre-flight Cadet. After six months of strenuous basic training, our commanding officer explained the Japanese Imperial Navy?s decision to employ ?special tactics?. He appealed for volunteers. The prerequisites were (1) eighteen years of age or over; (2) not the first born in a family...
...anyone holding to more strenuous notions of art, whatnots like that seemed too flimsy for words. Actually, the reviewers had words, plenty of them, including pathetic, precious and farce. Though he had notable defenders, the bad press was such that the show's curator, Marcia Tucker, eventually lost her job. Hilton Kramer, who was then the unappeasable critic of the New York Times, dismissed Tuttle with a few lines that followed the artist around for years. Playing off Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famous directive that less is more, Kramer announced that "in Mr. Tuttle's work, less...