Sentence examples for laborious at from inspiring English sources

When a restored version of the film was released in 1991, Janet Maslin wrote in The Times, "Amusing at some points and laborious at others, 'Spartacus' moves at the lumbering pace of the virtually extinct widescreen epic".

Dr Miriam Westheimer, who first brought the program to the US and is now its International Director, told Apolitical that transplanting it was laborious at first.

But often the laborious attempt at "lifelikeness" risks ending up duplicating deadness.

Most days see him tell us his rather laborious thoughts at least three or four times.

Cross-examinations have been delicate but laborious, conducted at a distance of more than 4,000 miles and through translators.

He is not consistent – he can be stodgy and laborious – but at his best he makes the stage a place of exceptionally generous, constantly shifting sympathies.

There were two sides to him: the loving, concerned nurturer, and the temperamental diva who tore up weeks of laborious work at the last minute.

The resultant surge in home-schooling and urban homesteading and home births and other laborious efforts at self-sufficiency make Purdy's writing look prescient.

For the time being, Pavesi — who oversees the laborious construction at Villa Zani in shimmering Prada brocades and immaculate furs that seem to magically repel dust and mud — is using the place as a location for some of her fashion shoots.

The exploration of Matt Murdock's childhood is lengthy and laborious, but at least it's interspersed through the early part of the series as memory, so that you get to see some Daredevil action early on.

Inner peace may be more difficult to maintain if Olazábal misses the cut at Augusta National, which would come as no surprise to anyone who saw him shoot a combined 16-over par in his two laborious rounds at the Shell Houston Open last week.