Sentence examples for grinding labor from inspiring English sources

The young Italian woman in the film, named Marilù, had left a bourgeois household for a life of grinding labor and poverty in Paris.

You might suppose that Darwin's great book was the product of patient, grinding labor, and while that might be the case, the filmmakers choose to convey the process of composition in the manner of a Gothic horror movie.

Although in hindsight his deciphering seems absurd (the squiggles had been formed naturally as the ink dried and cracked), it is also characteristic of the many claimed solutions to the Voynich manuscript, involving years of grinding labor and a certain amount of wishful thinking.

As anyone who has watched the ritual of the Doha Round of talks between World Trade Organization members can attest, international trade negotiations are grinding, labor-intensive ordeals, requiring teams of lawyers and other specialists who camp out in hotels in foreign capitals for months.

Workers collected gold by washing the nuggets out of sediment in alluvial deposits, or by the more labor-intensive process of grinding and washing gold-bearing quartzite.

"While Mr. Molina and Mr. Cage supply a measure of well-compensated eccentricity, their labors ultimately serve to emphasize the grinding mediocrity of the enterprise," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

Still today, children are employed in labor-intensive and dusty tasks, such as grinding and polishing.

These boiling houses were sheer furnaces of hell, with workers laboring round the clock around scalding pots and grinding machines.

"This is cow work," he said, using a Cantonese expression that means grinding menial labor.

No benefits, no job security, back to work, which can be grinding physical labor, weeks or even days after childbirth.

But how do you ask factory workers who perform grinding physical labor to retreat from hard-won health benefits?