It isn't easy to think of many performers who could have carried off that burdensome, Pilgrim's Progress name - Tom Good - and successfully persuaded you that the character really might be, without simultaneously making him dull.
We've even come up with a name for it: "burdensome regulation". But I think the story is much more complicated than that.
Coming across some old drawings I had made in my 20s, a decade characterized by my own suicidal depression, helped to give name to the burdensome sensation: duplicity.
"I don't think it's unduly burdensome to get a list of names," Donnelly said.
The county's papers had already consolidated in all but name, and it had become burdensome to remake the paper 12 times each day, reloading the presses so that each paper would carry its own nameplate and local section.
He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.
During that period, about 75 groups were selected for extra inquiry — including burdensome questionnaires and, in some cases, improper requests for the names of their donors — simply because of the words in their names, she said in a conference call with reporters.
Perhaps sharing these burdensome stories - of the victims of genocide, slavery, and displacement, to name just a few - can relieve even a fraction of the weight of memory rooted in the hearts and minds of the victims and future generations.
There's the lisping lass with the burdensome moniker of Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre a combination of her two fathers' names (Chelsea Baldree).
