If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who ...
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." ( )
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
