strenuousness

Example Sentences

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But the strenuousness of the effort shows, and the results, it seems to me, are unconvincing and at times dismayingly reductive.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 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

Deliberately he punished his body, strained his endurance, tested his capacity for strenuousness.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer