The software interface, developed by Microsoft but refined by Nokia, is designed to remove as much laborious touch-screen tapping as possible.
The architects themselves added the laborious final touch by tying together the vertical and latticework bamboo of the gates with black rope.
(Hugh Grant as a savage jungle chieftain? Why not!) But even that film's wit and ingenuity came to seem a touch laborious.
Well, I think the double-edged sword is that you sometimes feel like it's a touch laborious, but then if no one cared enough to talk to you, you would probably be a little bummed.
These confidently expressive touches are undermined by laborious pacing in the first two acts, in particular, where the scenes between Uncle Peter and Covey fall flat, while the newly married Nora Clitheroe seems far too self-conscious for this company.
This science-fiction reverse-aging conceit, from an early F. Scott Fitzgerald story, has been rendered by the writer Eric Roth and the director David Fincher with a fanatical literalness that occasionally touches the uncanny but often feels laborious and even pedantic.
This science-fiction reverse-aging conceit, from an early F. Scott Fitzgerald story, has been rendered by the writer Eric Roth and the director David Fincher with a fanatical literalness that occasionally touches on the uncanny but often feels laborious and even pedantic.
This science-fiction reverse-aging conceit, from an early F. Scott Fitzgerald story, has been rendered by the writer Eric Roth and the director David Fincher with a fanatical literalness that occasionally touches the uncanny but that often feels laborious and even pedantic.
Climbing the ruins at Angkor Wat in Cambodia was impressive, but as I grew tired and potentially contracted a touch of heat stroke, I started to repeat a mantra to myself with each laborious step forward: "Ellies.
Poetic touches, like a scene in which the performers dance with a wheelchair, are laborious.
Flecked with magical realist touches and a sense of the supernatural, the film takes no shortcuts as its characters discharge their laborious and depressing duties.
