Sentence examples for so strenuous from inspiring English sources

For the past year or so, strenuous efforts have been made to improve matters.

Elfin rather than Olympic-size, it was designed for relaxing -- nothing so strenuous as butterfly- or backstrokes or, God forbid, cannonballs.

The competition is so strenuous that riders cannot wear "leathers" above the waist because such heavy garments would overheat their bodies.

Angry parents began demanding that schools be notified when the air is particularly bad so strenuous student activities can be curtailed.

Perhaps only a very earnest liberal could play a name-dropping, millionaire harpy with such dedication, but Fonda is so strenuous that she's almost unwatchable.

Eyal Aharoni, who with Van Koppen founded the Santa Barbara Unicycle Club, said: "It's so strenuous that you have to take breaks.

The Walk Who it's for: People who don't want something too intense iOS: $2.99 Android: $2.99 A not-so-strenuous alternative to Zombies, Run!, The Walk takes the story-based fitness app approach and targets an audience that wants to take things a little easier.

So much strenuous effort, and never, ever a week when all the women being so assiduously courted are available.

In a medley of fragments from "West Side Story," every phrase was packed with so much strenuous acting that you barely noticed that they were fragments.

There are insights that can be plucked from it, but to do so requires strenuous resistance to the spirit of the project (both book and film), which is not just leering and gossipy, but aggressively anti-literary.

Thus it is somewhat surprising that the Supreme Court has taken on the two Bush cases -- and has done so over strenuous objections from the administration, which urged the court to leave the issue to the executive branch.