But, after strenuous attempts at provocation, he was underwhelmed by the contempt visited on him.
But for all these strenuous attempts at trendiness, there's something stolidly old-fashioned about the place: it's the mullioned windows, perhaps, or the long service table that dominates the middle of the room.
These narratives are difficult to tease out from the manuscripts — the stories are barely there at all; in fact, Zuckerman's manuscript pages seem to be merely his diary typed up, with some brief yet strenuous attempts at shaping his experiences into art.
Nor would such an alteration truly move beyond moral evaluation; for such strenuous attempts at objectivity are themselves motivated by a moral commitment to the ideal of objectivity.
During the last year, Austria has made a strenuous attempt to sort things out.
Long before the two crossed paths at the office, Platt, then a graduate student at Cambridge, picked up Muldoon's 1981 collection "Why Brownlee Left," choosing the poems "Cuba" and "Bran" to embark on, as he puts it, "a strenuous attempt to realize poetic detail in musical gesture, to grow decadent ivy around Paul's magnificent trellis of words".
This followed strenuous attempts by leaders of the G7 rich countries to be nice to Russia at their summit in Cologne.
Despite strenuous attempts in identification, no single causal factor stands out.
Five years of strenuous attempts by the Thai establishment to destroy Thaksin Shinawatra as a political force have come to naught.In 2006 the army pushed the democratically elected Mr Thaksin out at the end of a gun barrel.
"Complicity in torture is bad enough without repeat and strenuous attempts to cover it up.
Party membership is falling too, and even the most strenuous attempts to reverse the decline have faltered.
