Sentence examples similar to laborious phrasing from inspiring English sources

In a separate interview, Mr. Stookey said Mr. Kniss was not an ideal studio player because he found repeating riffs or phrases laborious; onstage, however, he said, Mr. Kniss was inventive, especially when a singer was soloing.

As if to back up his point Self's essay, also published on the BBC website, uses such obscure language as "lucubrations" (laborious study) and primus inter pares (first among equals) - which disobeys another Orwell dictum, "never use a foreign phrase if you can use an everyday English equivalent".

Not laborious.

Connected prose is laborious.

It was pretty laborious.

It was laborious.

It sounds incredibly laborious.

That can be laborious".

(It's unlikely that the unwieldy phrase "mental fist-pumps of delight" will be plagiarised, but I've set up a Google Alert in case). Still, it's laborious, unpaid work.

This was laborious, undramatic business.

It is a laborious route.