How To Use Laborious In A Sentence

Items with few words can probably be decoded, albeit laboriously, with adequate comprehension by even the majority of poor readers.
His plan was to use internet tracking technology to streamline this laborious process and provide more useful and timely information for other PR agencies. Times, Sunday Times
The scientist watches as eagles dive into the river, emerging laboriously moments later with silver salmon firmly in their talons.
Even the seemingly laborious housework became enjoyable when there was no time pressure.
The hard-pressed Minstead team, bolstered by full-time officers from the Yard's murder squad, was in danger of becoming bogged down in the laborious task of weeding out suspects on the fringe of the investigation.

For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error.
Today's techniques for DNA sequencing are comparatively laborious and indirect.
Leopardi spoke of le sudate carte, his laborious pages: a theory of composition. Lowell and the Furies
It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing.
Was it a laborious task? Times, Sunday Times
I think the single most important change for developers in the past 25 years has been the improvements in IDEs and debuggers that automate a lot of the programming and debugging tasks that people used to have to do laboriously by hand.
This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
Zima took seven years to develop his laborious encaustic process.
He performed a laborious loop, the signal for Kimberley and Killion to join him.
Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
The newly blancoed surface was easily scuffed or marked, necessitating a repetition of the entire laborious procedure.
The defects which Maty insinuates, “Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force,” are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Maurice — not with much justice considering the laboriousness of his life. Tales of all countries
Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
One man laboriously cut the pierced decoration with a fretsaw and a variety of steel punches.
The message would then continue to each major city or town by regular courier until it reached its destination, a very slow and laborious process.
Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
The text was laboriously written in longhand, typed by our printer on an office typewriter, and produced from paper plates - all 500 copies.
Because there are more than 4700 known glyphs - including almost 800 basic ones, of which some 400 are considered common - this has always been a lengthy and laborious task.
If sickness or some of those casualties which are perpetually incident to an active and laborious life, be superadded to these burthens, the distress is yet greater.
It is incredibly funny, and while it does occasionally meander with the laboriousness of a test match, the heart of this expansive novel isn't just about cricket. Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review
In one of his letters 4 October 1841 to Captain Beaufort he sounded discouraged by the laboriousness of the work and the fact that he apparently had had no acknowledgement of the data he had sent to the Royal Society. "But They are Very, Very Wrong" « Climate Audit
The first is for the main church, where there is no entry charge or laborious security, so the snake of people moves quickly. Times, Sunday Times
This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Les Miserables
The present volume, bright as it is in expression, is full of evidences that the author has submitted to the austerest requirements of his laborious profession; and if his opinions generally coincide with those which have been somewhat reluctantly adopted by the most eminent physicians of the age, it is certain that he has not jumped to his conclusions, but has reached them by patient and independent thought, study, and observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
Long considered too time consuming and laborious, shadowbox flaming has risen from the depths of obscurity to become a retailer's dream.
And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis .... Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
And we then have to go through the whole laborious switching process again. Times, Sunday Times
Having retired from the school last summer, he is now beginning the laborious process of sifting through his enormous archive and is writing a history of the period.
The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as Jacob laboriously climbed off his mattress.
When the lode is really rich, particularly if it be carrying coarse gold, and owing to rough country, or distance, a good battery is not available, excellent results in a small way may be obtained by the somewhat laborious, but simple, process of "dollying. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
Inefficiencies due to human error in conducting these laborious scans for potential applicants was another source for concern regarding the operation.
An immensely laborious process in homes where most mothers struggled to cope with all the other household jobs. Times, Sunday Times
Elizabeth gives so much of herself -- despite the pain, despite the exhaustion, despite the laboriousness of the task -- to give a little something to people she doesn't know. Last Saturday and the piece of sky and trees
Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
Policies are slowly emerging from the party's laborious but democratic consultative process by which any member can put forward ideas. Times, Sunday Times
In another puzzle the clue "Lug Laboriously" led to the Yiddish word schlep. Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Glenn Back, Gay Avech
In the first place, he is superannuated in his spiritual functions, and, being so, has to do something less harassing and laborious than spiritualizing Ethiopians to supply the domestic exchequer; anglice, to find beef and potatoes for a beloved wife and four little boys. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery
As well as being dangerous, the film-making process was laborious. Times, Sunday Times
They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.
Opening his eyes halfway, Raeyn laboriously pulled up an electronic mail window on his computer and dictated a message to Antony, providing an outlet for his disquietude and tension.
Laboriously we pushed the vehicles up the hill and then pushed off and pedaled like mad until we gained enough speed to coast the two blocks to where the street leveled off again.
One third of her working men were constantly employed, as before remarked, in this laborious operation, and some of their hands had become so sore from the constant friction of the ropes, that they could hardly handle them any longer without the use of mittens, assisted by the unlaying of the ropes to make them soft. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
Many scientists, including people writing doctoral theses, had access to the bones, and they were laboriously studied.
In 1898, after laboriously isolating various substances by successive chemical reactions and crystallizations of the products, which they then tested for their ability to ionize air, the Curies announced the discovery of polonium, and then of radium salts weighing about 0.1 gram that had been derived from tons of uranium ore. Curie, Marie Sklodowska
His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior.
A few seconds of rhythm, long minutes of laborious bulk transfer from one foot to the other. Times, Sunday Times
Much laborious discussion has been wasted in defining genius, particularly by the countrymen of Schiller, some of whom have narrowed the conditions of the term so far, as to find but three _men of genius_ since the world was created: Homer, Shakspeare, and Goethe! The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Barns and buildings were made by laboriously cutting huge trees with bucksaws and taking them to the sawyer with horse and wagon to be sawed into lumber.
Existing tests tend to look for one dangerous mutation at a time, a laborious process that limits them to patients already known to be at risk. Times, Sunday Times
Other approaches to the same problem have involved cross breeding, but it's a far more laborious process. Times, Sunday Times
A few seconds of rhythm, long minutes of laborious bulk transfer from one foot to the other. Times, Sunday Times
They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.
He was obliged to make his way forward by digging approaches, a lengthy and laborious process. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
The Watcher In The Woods is guilty of being slow and laborious.
But Parker and Stone confirm the actual making of the film has been laborious and exhausting.
India, for instance, makes short-term assignments impractical because of laborious visa requirements.
After Lish had worked over a manuscript, it would be laborious at best at least in precomputer days to restore it to its original state. Raymond Carver
Each page of each book is lovingly assembled and then laboriously hand printed on a R. Hoe Washington handpress that dates back to 1838. Did you know? Mexico has one of the world's oldest still-functioning printing presses
One-third of her working men were constantly employed, as before remarked, in this laborious operation, and some of their hands had become so sore from the constant friction of the ropes, that they could hardly handle them any longer without the use of mittens, assisted by the unlaying of the ropes to make them soft. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
In the future, visitors will theoretically be able to go to the site when the mood strikes, much as they visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. But for now and the next few years, accessing the Sept. 11 Memorial will entail a laborious process requiring the reservation of tickets ahead of time, and then, on the appointed date, wending through a downtown obstacle course involving two outdoor ticket screening points and a security checkpoint inside 90 West St. At 9/11 Site, Built-In Hurdles
In addition to the poor sound, downloading is a slow and laborious process. Times, Sunday Times
The journey was slow and laborious, necessitating frequent stops.
At least one of us will step in a pile of dog dirt which will have to be laboriously extracted from the shoe treads with a stick once we get home.
So began a long, laborious rehabilitation, his father taking a year out from work to oversee the process. Times, Sunday Times
Sir Joshua nowhere recommends _careless_ style; on the contrary, he every where urges the student to laborious toil, in order that he may acquire that facility which Sir Joshua so justly calls captivating, and which afterwards Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
Kottke posts a brilliant rant on the incredible laboriousness of being poly-FOAFed: Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives
If woman be the weaker creature, why is she employed in laborious avocations? why compelled to endure the fatigue of household drudgery; to scrub, to scower, to labour, both late and early, while the powdered lacquey only waits at the chair, or behind the carriage of his employer? Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
It's hard to imagine that with all the magical gadgets, the eager, studious types would still whip out a notepad, pencil, and highlighter–and take laborious, wrist-twisting notes in class.
In terms of this higher morality, the pompier and the poet both have invisible existences, both happen upon laborious roads of the future.
IT'S a laborious process deporting illegal immigrants who don't want to leave. The Sun
A century ago, mountains were climbed in hobnailed boots with stafflike ice axes, footsteps laboriously cut all the way to the top.
And as they thus procéeded in their matters, king William being a politike prince, forward and painefull in his businesse, suffered them not altogither to escape cléere awaie, but did sore annoy and put them oft to remediles losses, though he abode in the meane time many laborious iournies, slaughters of his people, and damages of his person. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
You had to run out to find foreign newspapers, or have them laboriously telexed from London or Paris.
Around the same time, the term ‘gloomy old men’ gained popularity with stand-up comics, and the previously lauded workingmen with brows knit from their laborious efforts fell out of favor and were no longer respected.
The light is weak and watery and the air reeks of woodsmoke, but at least it is not raining, a blessing to those who must spend a long, laborious day harvesting olives ahead of the inevitable frost.
However, it makes the process of buying and selling slow and laborious and these accounts are in the minority.
He wrote it all down in laborious longhand, then started to ask me questions. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
Men do not doff their hats in the down-town elevators which brought her up to the big office where she was employed, a great room near the top of one of the high down-town buildings; the windows looked out on the river, now a white mass of down-flowing ice, through which the calling steamers worked their way laboriously towards the harbour, to the Statue of Liberty standing beside what now looked a white gravel path of entry to the city. Impressions of a War Correspondent
Most of them didn't believe in modern machinery, so they had to laboriously cut their firewood with bucksaws.
The torch picked out a tiny red hermit crab as it climbed laboriously across the top of a sponge.
Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
Mrs. Daniel Pray, who was almost a giantess and bent laboriously over to accommodate her height to her husband's, took off her glasses and laid them on her declivitous lap, the better to fix Country Neighbors
To ride on the gallops at home he was terribly slow and laborious. Times, Sunday Times
When it appears to the untutored eye that any movement of the trailer would cause the whole slippery cargo to overbalance, it is re-hitched to the tractor which, grumbling and snorting, makes its laborious way back up the slope from the beach. Country diary: South Uist
Note: According to some learned theologians a misunderstanding of the text in the Gospel has given rise to this mistake, which has employed and wearied so many laborious commentators, though Origen had already taken the pains to preinform them. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The DRC civil war ended with a peace accord in 2002 which was gradually and laboriously supplemented by further agrements and implemented last year. ANC Daily News Briefing
She released her strong will from its laborious task. North and South
Not even the charisma of its leading lady can save it from the overlong bore it becomes, due to its laborious pacing and cliché-ridden script.
The slow and laborious nature of the work has meant that the fit-out has taken considerably longer than anticipated.
As well as being dangerous, the film-making process was laborious. Times, Sunday Times
Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
As well as being dangerous, the film-making process was laborious. Times, Sunday Times
The programmer will need to enter, laboriously, for each word in the system's lexicon, the different senses and the associated encyclopaedic knowledge.
Although I'm reasonable at mental arithmetic, I mostly think geometrically and then must laboriously check my geometric intuition with algebra.
We have been laborious, contented, and prosperous; and if we have been reabsorbed by the mother country, in accordance with what I cannot but call the pusillanimous conduct of certain of our elder The Fixed Period
So began a long, laborious rehabilitation, his father taking a year out from work to oversee the process. Times, Sunday Times
It has transformed laborious manual procedures into rapid electronic ones.
Gathering lichens, however, is laborious and, instead, in addition to locally produced grass converted into hay or silage, several commercially available pelleted feeds have been developed [65]. Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway
A beetle began to crawl laboriously up his leg.
Used as an additional resource, a different dimension which adds to an otherwise laborious process, programs can be very effective.
She was laboriously typing at a speed which could have explained Maggie Hewson's strictures about the firm's dilatoriness. She Closed Her Eyes
She gave in full the list of the seventeen girls who had been honored with scholarships, laboriously writing out their full names, with "Miss" attached to each, and the name of the town and the State in its unabbreviated length. When Patty Went to College
Basic facts of Indian history and life are laboriously spelt out in early chapters while in others the author assumes that readers know the meanings of Hindi words such as sannyasi someone who has renounced worldly things and be acquainted with the workings of Indian 'vote banks'. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In time, they would develop concavities, and would require laborious grinding to put them back into shape.
He grows perpetual carnations, a laborious and painstaking business, putting a collar on each one to prevent it from splitting before a show.
The mental state and discipline needed to produce the laborious, meticulous, painstaking stitchery required for the making of watertight kamiks are not evident in Irene's work.
The first is for the main church, where there is no entry charge or laborious security, so the snake of people moves quickly. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunate is, good, it is laborious website administrator reduplicative content is deleted in once dropping into filter place to search engine.
Unlike preprocessed shite TV which we can just zone out in front of, as every piece of plot is laboriously flagged, signposted and explained. Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone besides Orin and me watching Stargate Universe?
It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all.
spent many laborious hours on the project
Learn how Oaxaca's famed elixir is made from start to finish, from laborious pit-baked magueys to the intriguing process of distillation.
This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious.
Out of an estimated total of nine jumpers I've laboriously knitted for myself in my thirty-two years of life, only one was actually wearable.
The Essays display both the laboriousness and the delight of thinking. Michel de Montaigne
As we laboriously went through each box, we marked them off in our spreadsheet.
Over twenty-four minutes, the laborious repetition seems similar to the use of a single phrase, repeated on end, in an attempt to reach a state of heightened awareness.
Each scene would be a slow, laborious process often involving up to a dozen takes. Times, Sunday Times
They are mere phantoms or puppets of schoolcraft, laboriously put together by a learning drawn from old folios. Shakspere and Montaigne
Cooking and picking a crab is a laborious task, though not a thankless one. Times, Sunday Times
Each scene would be a slow, laborious process often involving up to a dozen takes. Times, Sunday Times
They may be work trucks, but pickups needn't be laborious to drive, the No.2 auto maker maintains.
The defects which Maty insinuates, "Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force," are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers. The Rules of the Game
Meanwhile, countless people are making do with an inferior broadband service as they think it would be a laborious process to change their provider. Times, Sunday Times
His most stable job, obviously, was the one he had working as a rigger mechanic at the navy yard, and as I started to say, he did generally that kind of laborious work for quite a few years until the latter part of my stay at home, which was when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old. Oral History Interview with Harvey B. Gantt, January 6, 1986. Interview C-0008. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
The process can be laborious, but it will ensure that you either fill your order at the very best price or avoid a poor trade altogether if the market fails to move your way.
Phenotypic testing was initially a laborious process involving multiple cultures of HIV.
On his way to the gourbi, his mental occupation was a very laborious effort to put together what he was pleased to call a rondo, upon a model of versification all but obsolete. Off on a Comet
In this manner we had advanced about four miles to the westward by eight P.M., after eleven hours of very laborious exertion; and having then come to the end of the clear water, and the weather being again foggy, the ships were secured in a deep "bight," or bay in a floe, called by the sailors a Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
It was laborious and tedious and horrible, but it got me interested in math.
Samaranch schemed for years to be appointed to the Olympic committee, sending unsolicited letters to its president, Avery Brundage, eulogizing in one of them the American's 'intelligence, laboriousness and love for [the] Olympic idea' and in another promising, 'I will entirely devote myself to go with your personality and prominent work.' Dave Zirin: Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch
During that period of ardent, laborious youth, he faithfully shut himself up in libraries, attended public lectures, and gave himself a solid foundation of learning, which sometimes awakened surprise when discovered under the elegant frivolity of the gay turfman. The French Immortals Series — Complete
But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull.
The process of registration is slow and laborious and this has been compounded by the low number of people who have been assigned to carry out the task.
Continue to cultivate the mind, to sharpen by exercise the genius, to attempt to delight or to instruct your race; and even supposing you fall short of every model you set before you -- supposing your name moulder with your dust, still you will have passed life more nobly than the unlaborious herd. Ernest Maltravers — Complete
Checking all the information will be slow and laborious.
You strain off the water and, after seconds instead of the laborious minutes of hand labor this task used to take, you are ready to make the famous Provençal "pistache" of lamb with 50 garlic cloves that you might have otherwise shrunk from cooking. Snaring the Elusive Thermomix
Current analysis methods entail clipping, near-infrared spectroscopy, and chemical procedures that, while accurate and site-specific, are laborious and take days to complete.
Less than a year ago my research would have required a laborious and tedious consultation of the multiple microfilm editions of Knox's works owned by my library.
The unfortunate reputation that writing often bears as being boring and laborious is likely a result of people writing about uninteresting topics and doing so only out of necessity. Writer’s High – Are You Missing Out? | Write to Done
Games that were danced through last season with verve and energy now feel laborious, as players grope for the glitter that once trailed behind them. Times, Sunday Times
Shoving these thoughts aside, he meditated, laboriously clearing his mind.
After all, it took me many years of intense misery, guilt, shame and terror before I could learn to accept myself, and that too was a slow and laborious process.
Nobody is going to start the laborious process of cropping a plant if it is freely available in the environment.
A whole new generation of pneumatics pre-charged with high pressure air metered from a scuba bottle or laboriously pumped up by hand are bringing us back to the designs of the 18th and 19th centuries.
To a sighted person, reading Braille seems to be difficult and laborious, yet, intriguingly, Kleege describes it as natural and pain-free, and even skim reading is possible.
But why should the descendants of Eusthenopteron have troubled to clamber about laboriously on the land?
Cooking and picking a crab is a laborious task, though not a thankless one. Times, Sunday Times
Structure-based drug design is a technique that has been around since the 1980's but has not been fully exploited due to the laboriousness of obtaining crystal structures by traditional means.
Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error.
The prosess was laborious, but I had no reason to complain of the way it worked.
I thought about doing the slow, laborious walk, but shrugged off the idea.
Existing tests tend to look for one dangerous mutation at a time, a laborious process that limits them to patients already known to be at risk. Times, Sunday Times
And we then have to go through the whole laborious switching process again. Times, Sunday Times
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends.
The Chinese students are educated the way are "the force feed duck", is laborious very.
Recall the days when students sat in front of keypunches laboriously preparing their programs and then waiting for hours or even days to receive a listing file containing a list of vague error messages.
Despite the laborious backstory and mood lighting, the movie is chock full of standard comic book hokum.
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist, and the laborious collator some unlucky moment frolicks in conjecture. Preface to Shakespeare
This old trick means that there's no need to laboriously cream together the butter and sugar, which saves time, or even pre-soak the fruit, as Mary Berry and Claire Clark suggest, and, some claim, gives a lighter, and yes, a moister end result. How to cook perfect Christmas cake
Another method is to laboriously analyse the injesta or food consumed and compare it with the dejecta or excretions, until a quantity and kind of food is found which is just sufficient to keep the body in equilibrium. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
IT'S a laborious process deporting illegal immigrants who don't want to leave. The Sun
Make the laborious task of planting bulbs easier with this stainless-steel dibber. Times, Sunday Times
Talking is a laborious process. Times, Sunday Times
Bio-tex Powder and some of the Stain Devils had to be dissolved in water - laborious for a small stain.
Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
Someone laboriously tills the land and the fruits are snatched away by the opportunists.
The cards were completed laboriously and with a fair amount of guesswork.
Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
Tonight he takes on the physically and mentally laborious task of farming. The Sun
The work was slow and laborious - every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel and hauled out of the horizontal shaft.
Watercolor painters before c. 1800 had to make paints themselves using pigments purchased from an apothecary or specialized "colourman"; the earliest commercial paints were small, resinous blocks that had to be wetted and laboriously "rubbed out" in water. WarCry Network : Latest News
He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation. I Will Repay
The air was so calm that flying was probably laborious, and when a light breeze slipped in—not from the west but out of the east—a big redtail climbed up to play along the cliff face, then dropped down to skim low. Bird Cloud
There's an of menace to her voice, so I pick a site without too many emetic pictures of hand-holding couples on beaches at sunset and start the laborious sign-up process. Diary of a separation
Her writing was laborious and she disliked penmanship lessons most of all, so naturally she was enthusiastic about a walk.
All the laborious editing serves slight purpose, and presents the wearying phenomenon of a spoof of a schlock genre that is virtually a parody of itself.
Policies are slowly emerging from the party's laborious but democratic consultative process by which any member can put forward ideas. Times, Sunday Times
The passata came from tomatoes grown in my mother's garden in the South of France, laboriously boiled, peeled and deseeded.
Even most forms of neorealism don't put much emphasis on plot -- writers having sensibly concluded there's no point in competing with movies for the slam-bang scenario -- and what would be the point of laboriously describing in a synopsis the details of character and setting that the reader simply has to encounter in the finished work? Principles of Literary Criticism
Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching.
A return to a standard once lost is a painful and laborious journey… As Cobden once said of the greenbacks, after the debauch comes the headache.
Gervase, speaking of one of these species, says: -- "If anything should be to be carried on in the house, or any kind of laborious work to be done, they join themselves to the work, and expedite it with more than human facility. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them
He might enjoin upon me the most laborious tasks, set the envy of my brother to watch me during the performance, make the most diligent search after my books, and destroy them without mercy, when they were found; but he could not outroot my darling propensity. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
The light is weak and watery and the air reeks of woodsmoke, but at least it is not raining, a blessing to those who must spend a long, laborious day harvesting olives ahead of the inevitable frost.
Customary manual creation of virtual reality models of real world scenes is tedious and error-prone work as the scene complexity increases and any automation can substantially reduce the laboriousness and consequently the cost of the whole process.
He begins the laborious process by truing the radius of the front strap and then meticulously laying out line after line of the finely cut checkering.
Under these conditions generative reproduction is very laborious but extremely productive.

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