One could hardly expect the literary and philosophical elite to focus on the strenuousness of faith as a personal relation to God unsupported by reason, or on the strenuousness of love as responsibility to and for one's neighbour unsupported by society's ethos.
The relative simplicity is understandable, considering the intellectual strenuousness of the dance for the performers.
While continuing to enact a level of sexual strenuousness that caused what I would describe as a gradually tightening, chest-located, sweetness rubber band to both connect us and compel us onward, we whispered feverishly (precisely, poetically) about how long we felt we had known each other, i.e., forever.
A day in which the most arduous choice has been between "grande" and "tall" does not conduce to literary strenuousness.
The perennial appeal of his ballet pictures to genteel and young-girl tastes is an old irony, given his actual, pitiless focus — pretty costumes and effulgent stage lights aside — on the gruelling strenuousness of the dance.
On her first two albums, released within the past few years, she whipped up a fast froth of electric guitar and yelping vocals, turning strenuousness into a life force.
"I think that he's done some very good work on the board," Dr. Goldstein said, though he added, "I disagree with the strenuousness of his statement" about Mr. Kushner.
But strenuousness is of the essence in this work, and the players, with their effortless virtuosity, almost made it look and sound too easy.
Politicians and national party conventions were fodder for his ruminations, but in The New York Times Magazine on Aug. 11, 1912, Mr. Dooley compared life in his often tedious Second City with the strenuousness of New York.
The cult of manly strenuousness, so influential among the Ashcan artists, proceeded very much from the figure and legend of Roosevelt.
That joining together of aspiring strenuousness with an ever-increasing allusiveness would define Carter's creative project for the next two decades.
