It wasn't just the Southern Ocean that was arduous and dangerous to chart.
That was arduous since the Mets have been unappealing for a month.
It's the things they did to court unhappiness — the things they did that were arduous and miserable, which sometimes cost them friends and aroused hatred.
"I know that it is arduous, that it is painful, that it is a drawn-out task," Ms. Merkel said.
Mimicking her mother's thumb typing, she adds, "She's like, 'Hold on, I'll be there in a second.' " Perhaps Ms. Palin's most impressive feat is climbing a glacier with a guide and her husband, a rock-climbing adventure that is obviously arduous and scary.
He, his younger brother and the wife they share, in the polyandrous triangle common to the region, have watched three of their four babies die -- a result of the near-total lack of modern medicine, the poor sanitation and nutrition and, ultimately, the poverty and isolation of a village that is an arduous six-hour hike from the nearest dirt road.
Fulfilling that charge is arduous.
Robert Alter's scrupulous introduction, and the presence, in "The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai," of no fewer than fourteen different translators (with many new versions by Alter), reminds us that translation is arduous, necessary, and unfinished.
"I know that it's arduous, that it's painful, that it's drawn-out," she said.
She told me that the country offered climbs that were both arduous and beautiful, surrounded by raw wilderness.
