As her commitment to street parking might suggest, Ms. Dieckmann is an urban tactician of some skill, adroitly juggling a career in the arts with parenting and what she calls "the zany arduousness" of life in a fifth-floor walk-up.
This is not modesty so much as caution, certainly a function of being 57 and not 39, the age I was when I embarked the last time, with no concept of the length and arduousness of what lay in front of me.
Most importantly, it avoids the intricacy, arduousness and rigorousness involved in devising an appropriate scheme for balancing design performance against design complexity.
Further, the research will help people know more about diverse social linguistic contexts in China and Singapore, the different essence of first language (L1) and second language (L2) teaching, and the complexity and arduousness of language teaching in practice.
Intermittent pleasure mingles with persistent illustration of the excruciating arduousness of stand-up comedy in "The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy," which began an open-ended run at the Actors Temple Theater on Wednesday night.
The aged maxim 'Train Hard, Fight Easy' is more than a rhetoric, and in fact reflects the arduousness inherent to preparing soldiers for war.
Our refusal rate was high in all groups, reflecting the arduousness of recruiting this patient-group into research as well as into the health care-system, as shown in other studies involving this group of patients [ 50, 51].
And I think there was some disappointment that in the editing we minimised the arduousness of skinning a squirrel".
But what emerges, particularly from Vargas Llosa's retelling of Flora Tristan's experiences of such wildly different societies as colonial Peru and civic France, is the sheer ardour, ambition and arduousness of her political attempt to reconcile both in a single world view.
But then the whole operation itself was so extreme that, in some ways, the distance and the arduousness of the journey and the strangeness of the destination seemed fitting.
