Laborious hand-crafting and recycling of materials play a central role in the works of other artists here.
And their crafting — a laborious process that involves stacking, gluing and cutting planks of cedar — is labor-intensive.
Before the late 19th Century, the manufacture of memory was a laborious business, requiring cumbersome mechanical processes and even craft.
In the early millennia of human existence, a craft was acquired in a lengthy and laborious manner by serving with a master who gradually trained the initiate in the arcane mysteries of the skill.
Critics of lowered-pricing strategies lament the discounting will cheapen craft's image, devalue independent brewery employees' laborious labors of love and shrink margins to the point of insolvency.
These lapses aside, "The Lost Painting" does an engrossing job of showing how art historians and art restorers work, and it demonstrates how their painstaking craft can unearth clues to the past, and how laborious, frustrating and occasionally rewarding that work can be.
Constructing such a story would be laborious enough had it been written originally in English -- crafting a romance, and fully realized characters with fully realized ambitions and desires, is unfortunately difficult to remove from our learned roles as men and women.
