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strenuous

«The girls are trotted out twice during each floor show, do nothing more strenuous than shake an ankle, wriggle a hip or twitch a shoulder-and it has taken choreographer Douglas Coudy weeks to teach them to do that.»
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
«Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | About: Golf | Keywords: idleness, round of golf, strenuous
«New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves»
«A strenuous soul hates cheap success.»
«I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life»