Word: strenuousness
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...like James Wilson clearly declared that the Constitution was to serve not theory but people-"Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government? Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called states?" Indeed, arguments over the mess the Constitution was about to create grew so strenuous and disconcerting that George Washington later confessed he had been ready to support "any tolerable compromise that was competent to save us from impending ruin...
...offers no safe harbor. When Wilson writes, with self-conscious moderation, "The evidence is strong that almost all differences between human societies are based on learning and social conditioning rather than heredity. And yet perhaps not quite all...," he leaves himself open to attack from both fronts, the most strenuous coming from strict environmental determinists. This group believes that giving any weight to the effects of genetic determinants means that human behavior is somehow limited. Admitting this, they say, is tantamount to admitting that some social problems are insoluble. Perfect egalitarianism can and should be promoted. The implementation of this...
...great depth of pictorial suggestion. One seemed to be looking not at an explicit sculptural fact but at a dark reef of nuances: form laid beside and over form, shadow vanishing into deeper shadow, leading the eye inward to a profusion of veiled detail that demanded the most strenuous attention. In an environment she showed at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959, Dawn's Wedding Feast (reassembled in her 1980 show at the Whitney), Nevelson turned this effect inside out by painting the whole array white, not black. The chalky surface now produced an effect of mummification...
Duran insisted that, satisfactory or not, it was his last fight, and that from now on the hands of stone will never do anything more strenuous than count the estimated $8 million he earned from this fight (Leonard made about $6 million). Said Duran: "I have been fighting for a long time. I have gotten tired of the sport. I am going to retire." As criticism of his eighth-round walkout grew, however, Duran had second thoughts. "I will not retire and I will seek a revenge fight with Sugar Ray Leonard," he said. Lest any paying customers feel cheated...
Paul Taylor, a political reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer who has followed Ozzie Myers' career, says Democratic leaders may have made less than a strenuous effort to persuade Myers to drop out of the race, because "the others they wanted to beat him with" would have been perceived as invading Myers' "local turf...