But there are a host of things that used to be almost routine that the 112th Congress has managed to make laborious and at times downright tedious — a departure from the traditional desires of members to pass legislation during an election year and claim accomplishments to trot out back home.
Fortunately, there was already a toilet downstairs, behind the kitchen, but I was sure that, if the upstairs one had been the only one, she would have made the laborious climb as often as necessary, rather than pursue a change so radical and unnerving.
Although this "bandwidth" problem keeps shrinking as technology improves, it makes listening laborious.
Computers can do little with a text that humans could not, but they make some laborious work go faster.
Most of them read fluently but one or two struggle, which of course makes it laborious listening, yet at no point does McDonnell correct them.
So the pickers, mostly Mexicans, have to make their laborious way down the rows of trees as many as a dozen times a year, steadying themselves on the steeply sloping mountainside as they pluck the ripe berries from the trees.
He likes to spend the first half or two-thirds of a work showing his mixed feelings about the traditions of ballet, and he makes a laborious shtick out of treating ballerinas in an anti-ballerina way.
The experience also isn't helped by a mundanely designed menu system, which puts all the key inventory lists and upgrade options on the pause menu (surely a game design no-no), and makes it laborious to select scenic objects you want to restore.
On the plot of a woman ("church-going, rheumatic and childless") making a laborious journey to meet her blind husband is hung a disquisition on the melancholy of life – what is unforgettably called its "shrouding" – and thoughts on the slipperiness of language.
"It's not all cigarette boats and fancy parties," he tells a new recruit, referred to only as "the kid," while they make their laborious way up a mountain trail on packhorses to collect a delivery being dropped from a small plane.
