arduousness

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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

But pulling off this kind of funny business is tricky: A “39 Steps” production needs to suggest the arduousness of theatricality without making its theatricality feel arduous.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

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

The Smith Island Baking Company, the only bakery on Smith Island, has proclaimed itself “the #1 Dessert Company in the World,” and assuming they’re judging on a scale of arduousness, I have to agree.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2014

I am no Mr. Stanley; and the length, the difficulties, the arduousness of the labour appalled me. 

From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew