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In this case, the vice president’s belabored justification for his lie is that a tiny percentage of the trillion dollars in question — the price tag of GOP health care cuts — is spent on legal immigrants.

Even at 72 minutes, “Good Boy” is belabored in the middle stretch.

Daisy began her journey at Downton Abbey as a belabored kitchen maid, but eventually the estate’s revered cook Mrs. Patmore took her under her wing.

But this exhibitionistic Oedipus is the star of the show’s unnecessary preface, a belabored warmup act that should have been cut in rehearsals.

Without belaboring the point, Howe provides abundant evidence to the contrary, arguing that imperialistic expansion was in the very DNA of the young republic.