strenuousness

Example Sentences

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For a final year, though, the family traveled with camels, sheep, cows and horses through “towering waves of immaculate golden sand dunes,” with Li to chronicle their life of almost unbelievable strenuousness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

That joining together of aspiring strenuousness with an ever-increasing allusiveness would define Carter's creative project for the next two decades.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2012

“I think that he’s done some very good work on the board,” Dr. Goldstein said, though he added, “I disagree with the strenuousness of his statement” about Mr. Kushner.

From New York Times • May 11, 2011

It failed less for its experimentation, which was spotty, than for the strenuousness with which he pursued it.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2010

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

From "1984" by George Orwell