"It was made laborious by unprofessional or selfish behavior.
Computers can do little with a text that humans could not, but they make some laborious work go faster.
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.
"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.
This notion is turned upside down (and then rolled down a ramp, shot into the air, and so on..) with Rube Goldberg machines -- machines which make absurd, laborious and complex processes to complete a simple task.
Although this "bandwidth" problem keeps shrinking as technology improves, it makes listening laborious.
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.
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.
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.
