And so began futile but strenuous efforts on behalf of the management of PolyGram, myself and Alain Lévy included, to try to save PolyGram from annihilation.
Escape the gradually growing throngs by tackling the short but strenuous climb to the top rather than driving straight to the viewpoint.
Getting pierced with wire needles is all in a day's work for Ballentine, who in recent months enrolled in a chic but strenuous boot camp and subjected herself to experimental juice cleanses featuring potions named Drink Your Salad and Ginger Fireball.
It's one of the mysteries of sleep: Why is it that mild exercise can be invigorating, but strenuous endurance exercise — whether it's crew practice, long runs as training for a marathon or juggling back-to-back workouts to prepare for a triathlon — makes people groggy?
The violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has spent the last three weeks offering a compact but strenuous overview of the 20th-century repertory, playing a half-dozen concertos with the New York Philharmonic and presenting two recitals at Carnegie Hall, the last of which was on Monday night.
Now, however, I am in the final year of my own doctorate, and I realise how ill prepared I was for this fascinating, but strenuous, experience.
