But the bloodshed produces an undercurrent of ugliness that the strenuously jokey high spirits cannot dissolve.
The interrogations were hastily organized, and strenuously resisted: many high-ranking officials objected on both moral and practical grounds.
The one that strenuously seeks to wring high drama out of its story ends up being not very dramatic.
A cell phone and a Prada wallet, propelled outward by who knows what other privileged appurtenances below, may be clues to the always accelerating risks and schemes of high style, as strenuously aimed for as the hoop.
Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it's in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
In Santaland, to be specific, Macy's 12,000 square feet of high-fructose fantasy designed to bring strenuously grinning elves and only occasionally weeping children together in the happy glow of Old St .Nick.
Rwanda has strenuously denied the growing body of evidence that higher-ups in the Rwandan military were working closely with Mr. Ntaganda or other rebels to dominate the lucrative mineral trade in eastern Congo.
Machines at the ITF's high-tech lab at Roehampton, south-west London, strenuously test racquets and balls for approval on the court.
Simpson and his high-priced but often divided legal team argued strenuously from the outset that he was innocent, and his lawyers launched an extraordinary assault on the police investigation.
Southern, the Tennessee Valley Authority and other energy companies high on the study's list have lobbied the Bush administration strenuously to ease air pollution regulations, according to environmentalists, government officials and Washington lobbyists.
LeBlanc preaches the primacy of individual conscience, he strenuously opposes the Vietnam War, and he's just a shade too glib when teaching high school students about papal infallibility.
