Sentence examples for arduous read from inspiring English sources

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According to Mr Sylla's calculations, for each dollar paid by an American consumer for a fair-trade product, only three cents more are transferred to the country it came from than for the unlabelled alternative.Mr Sylla's frequent criticisms of neoliberalism, the existing trade system and its "plutocratic bias" (by which he means mostly enriching wealthy economies) make his book an arduous read.

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Although there are brief moments of brilliance, I found this book arduous reading and ultimately, unsatisfying.

Meanwhile, a more formidable enemy has arrived in the form of resolute utilitarians who discourage students from seeking what Bawer wants for them: the chance, through arduous reading and reflection under the guidance of dedicated teachers, to discover themselves.

Though these early chapters of "Island" sometimes make for arduous reading, Ms. Rogers wants to establish firmly Nikki's state of mind, to convey the depth of her despair and self-absorption and the ferocity of her rage.

All of the tips listed above (1-5) address the two main differences between print reading and screen reading – i.e, A) chunked text is more arduous to read on a screen and B) eye movement is more top-to-bottom than left-to-right on a screen.

Additionally, as mentioned, screen reading is seemingly more arduous than print reading because a one-page document can seem like a 10-page proposal due to the additional scrolling required, especially on a small screen.

And the writing process is actually relatively quick once I've gone through that incredibly painful, arduous process of reading and re-reading the book, especially when I'm doing a review that maybe hits three or four or five different books.

Ever an enthusiast for linguistic difficulty, he would relax from this arduous project by reading Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu in the original far into the night.

It was an arduous road.

Things became a little more arduous last summer when I read, in a row, the two great European novels of adultery, Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".

Both made reading an arduous task.

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