In the end, though, Weiner dismisses such sects as "some frothy tonic for our everyday neuroses," their allure lying in their evasion of the arduous demands made by the world's "good religions".
Now free time was scarce, thanks to an unceasing flow of fan mail, the minutiae of merchandising, processions of visitors, and, until Lars, one of her brothers, took over, the arduous demands of the comic strip.
"It is safe to say that Fifth and Park Avenues and Central Park West have the most arduous demands," Mr. Purcell said, "but there are some lovely buildings on side streets that are very particular, too".
To me, his demeanour is of a serious adult whose office makes arduous demands on him, requiring an answering ardour, resolve and discipline, along with a sublimation of the purely personal.
The original, with only so many basketball minutes left in his 7-foot-6 frame, deserves the rest of his days off from the arduous demands of the national team after the Beijing Games, for good behavior and common decency.
Yet in general his plays are long, arduous, defiantly demanding; O'Neill told a reporter before The Iceman Cometh opened that he'd tried to cut 45 minutes, but had managed only 15: "It will have to run from 8 o'clock to whenever it now goddamned pleases – maybe quarter to 12.
Though Daugherty's solo part is both arduous and technically demanding, Hoopes made light of its difficulties in a performance that was as comprehensively assured as it was profoundly expressive.
In her award citation, she was described as "a consummate carver" with "arduous and physically demanding relationships with materials" who had "always been passionate and emphatic about sculpture".
"It's a demanding, arduous road that requires of us great strength, but it's the only one that will bring us the Mexico that we want to build," Peña Nieto said.
And, at first hearing, it's something of a trial — demanding and arduous, like so much of modern music.
