Sentence examples for rather burdensome from inspiring English sources

It was this vocational devotion that eventually earned Postlethwaite the rather burdensome label of, in Steven Spielberg's words, "best actor in the world".

The first time we met, in May, Grantham said, "The rather burdensome thought is that people won't listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me".

Last spring, when the writer Carlo Rotella first met Grantham for a profile commissioned by The Times Magazine — it was published in August — Grantham told him, "The rather burdensome thought is that people won't listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me".

In this context, participants regarded advice from sales assistants as rather burdensome.

Participants regarded advice from sales assistants as not very reliable and rather burdensome.

I've only done it once, and I found it rather burdensome to do.

But they were quaint rather than burdensome.

Even though it's been years since he read the Sunday paper by the fireplace or watched a Super Bowl, Dr. Anderson said he sees all the challenges as beautiful rather than burdensome.

Making medical decisions ahead of time, rather than being burdensome, frees individuals to concentrate on the personal and emotional at the end.

But in a departure from past practice, President Néstor Kirchner is insisting that companies that reaped windfall profits here in the 1990's share today's pain by fulfilling contracts they now see as burdensome, rather than sticking customers with the tab.

Cannon explains that, as power shifts to patients with large HSAs, there would be mounting political pressure to allow those patients to choose the exact coverage that meets their particular needs, rather than impose burdensome mandates on all.