Sentence examples for if arduous from inspiring English sources

For Francis, it was an enchanting, if arduous, childhood, part Boys Lifee and part Woodstock.

Walsh made a steady if arduous recovery, enrolled at Green Mountain Valley School and returned to ski racing.

Baseball, though, has been a way for players and coaches from damaged and undamaged schools to resume a predictable if arduous routine they followed before the waves arrived.

It tries to end on an ambivalent note, but the play, dedicated to Ms. Shavers's mother, clearly extols parenthood as a noble if arduous undertaking.

And yet, to inmates who have been wrongly accused, the real cruelty would be to deny them the careful, if arduous, process of appeals that could lead to their freedom.

If the Boston Marathon, a feel-good, if arduous, symbol of spring time and civic pride for a great American city can be disrupted so brutally, then so can any ballgame, public concert or crowd.

He may not be able to do so now since his concert schedule is itself if not arduous, then very very full.

Negotiating a new treaty would be arduous, if not impossible.

If research is arduous and frustrating, then it's not fun.

The journey northward from the Mediterranean is arduous, if not impossible.

But the mayor's supporters know just how arduous, if not nearly impossible, it will be to change the law.