Now the same medium features guys like Butch and Adam laboring intensely to look more gay.
Over the past year, the ambassador had labored intensely to reach a deal with the Iraqi government to keep a substantial number of troops here.
Aren't we supposed to labor intensely over the Saturday grid, sweating our way through the cryptically worded clues, setting off in numerous wrong directions, erasing and overwriting, only to land, exhausted but triumphant, on the hard-won completed puzzle?
Darwin was himself a lover of literature (Dickens especially) and labored intensely over the prose of "Origin," especially the metaphors, which he felt were not just gratuitous flourishes, but the most capacious vehicles for his scientific ideas.
In response, Chief Orosa said in a statement, "The Miami Police Department welcomes this long-awaited response and looks forward to the opportunity to clarify several components of the letter, as well as to labor intensely to negotiate an agreement with the Department of Justice, as promptly as possible".
Orosa, the Miami police chief, issued a statement saying the MPD "looks forward to the opportunity to clarify several components of the letter, as well as to labor intensely to negotiate an agreement with the Department of Justice, as promptly as possible".
Labor-intensive and intensely active, Raqib Shaw's paintings look like X-rated, subaquatic hybrids of Hieronymus Bosch, Victorian fairy painting, Persian miniatures and Bollywood films of the Ramayana.
Beyond the significant benefits for our climate and health, the potential economic benefits may also be substantial because renewable energy technologies are typically more labor-intensive than intensely mechanized fossil fuel technologies.
Yet I am willing to bet my career that Clemens labored more intensely during his playing days than does his former teammate.
Though at first blush it might sound like chaotic improvisation, the complex arrangement was clearly labored over intensely.
Its origins are shrouded in a bit of over-the-top romance: wild acorns were gathered in misty mountain forests, intensely labored over using old-fashioned millstones, and provided sustenance for riverside villagers.
