It's understandable that in a crowded marketplace designers might strain for attention with strenuous effects.
As family and friends had felt in the Duggan case, it appeared that strenuous efforts were being taken to divert attention from the shooting itself.
Reagan's planners are willing to allow his genial personality to speak for itself but are making strenuous efforts to keep the nation's attention on his economic program.
Mr. Eristoff's strenuous disagreement, expressed in his ad, drew national attention.
The book, which is designed to focus public attention on Kafka's intimate life, makes a strenuous effort over and above that to urge readers to rigorously ignore the events of the Holocaust in order to understand Kafka's work.
The funniest sequence in a comedy that revels in knockabout farce and has the attention span of a hyperactive child is a strenuous group effort to revive a corpse, first through some alarmingly aggressive artificial respiration, then through slapping and slamming the body until it breaks apart.
But under Islamic law, women are not allowed to run, engage in strenuous exercise, or do anything with their bodies to attract the attention of men.
Not rated, 87 minutes A telling indication of the level of comic inspiration that drives "Martin and Orloff," an occasionally savvy farce that suffers from attention deficit disorder, is its grand final joke, a strenuous bit of vaudevillian horseplay involving an unseen supersize penis.
