Sentence examples for this strenuous from inspiring English sources

This strenuous hike offers a journey through areas that many tourists never see.

But sympathy and heart are what this strenuous, old-fashioned enterprise utterly lacks.

Wagnerians long hardened to diminished expectations for this strenuous role had every reason to be happy on Tuesday night.

"Because the smile bore evidence of this strenuous effort," Mr. Gao says, "it also sometimes resembled crying".

As an image of marital commitment, this strenuous sculling-to-nowhere is as bleak as it gets.

As the students were quick to note, Bird undertook this strenuous, not to say backbreaking, activity because her doctors had prescribed travel for her spinal ailment.

This physically strenuous game of "3D chess" - with its endless permutations - is enough to keep many climbers happy without ever setting foot on a mountain.

This followed strenuous attempts by leaders of the G7 rich countries to be nice to Russia at their summit in Cologne.

A dozen or so pages later, you emerge from a sustained immersion in this knotty, strenuous prose rubbing your eyes -- dazzled, maybe a bit fatigued and unquestionably wiser than you were before.

Some moves took years to learn – this is strenuous exercise demanding intense upper body strength – but for plus-size dancers, it's even harder: due to sheer physics, carrying more weight requires more muscle.

(Chinen) RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA, MARK DRESSER, GERRY HEMINGWAY (Tonight) This is strenuous experimentalism, but not without a point: Mr. Mahanthappa's flinty alto saxophone tone should abrade effectively against Mr. Dresser's probing bass playing and Mr. Hemingway's textural percussion.