arduousness

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In the 1930s, however, radio — which was more transformative than what it paved the way for: television — became, Stirewalt says, a passively absorbed alternative to the comparative arduousness of literacy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

But her defensiveness speaks to the arduousness of this kind of revelation, the fact that it is going against not just entrenched power structures, but some formidable internal dictate of decorum or pride.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

At the same time, the uncommonness of his big-picture analysis and the apparent difficulty of tracking down Cops’ more reluctant participants speak to their arduousness.

From Slate • May 24, 2019

The arduousness of the career and the elusiveness of its rewards result in some other common characteristics, which Johnson enumerates: determination, passion, and innovative thinking.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2014

Adieu, Jack, I must be soon out of my pain; and my Clarissa shall be soon out of her's—for so does the arduousness of the case require.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel