Sentence examples for certainly strenuous from inspiring English sources

And taking a day off from eating and drinking -- a whole 24 hours of abstention -- is certainly strenuous, so much so that those who are sick are not expected to fast in the tradition of Reform Judaism in which I was raised.

It certainly worked better than a strenuous 1985 West End version of Trumpets and Raspberries, starring Griff Rhys Jones, which depended too heavily on a knowledge of Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli.

These relatively non-strenuous exercises can certainly improve mood and may bring about subtle physiologic brain changes dampening down our minds' rational filters.

Certainly, her pedigree would allow for a less strenuous pace.

Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story" is a movie about a film crew trying to make a movie of "Shandy," and what we see onscreen, with its antic interjections, its strenuous irrelevancies, its attempted sardonicism, is certainly in the spirit of Laurence Sterne.

The robots are certainly no nonsense and capable of repetitive and strenuous tasks that are putting a strain on factory workers.

This prompted officials to order more strenuous efforts to keep petitioners from flocking to Beijing, and certainly well away from the meetings.

But certainly Ms. Geller's various Web sites offer no evidence of them, despite a strenuous effort to do so.

Hough certainly made it seem the most attractive music in the world, making light of the more strenuous moments in the opening Allegro, adding silvery filigree to the Grieg-like passages in the slow movement, and steadily increasing the showiness of the finale.

Lately there has been a strenuous and sophistic effort to show that the new social media — Facebook, especially, but there are certainly others — are just outsize reworkings of earlier forms of social organization, like the elite clubs of the Ivy League that have enjoyed a mystique since the 1960s.

The fight was strenuous.