| 单词 | labored |
| 例句 | Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Sahagun is known as the first American anthropologist, for he labored for decades to understand the Indians he sought to convert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More often than not, they labored as long as there was light, in the broiling heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Though he had taken no rest nor a morsel of food, all through the ninth day Tehlu labored. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The young lawyer was on civil, if not close, terms with Durham’s older black leaders, but he labored under no illusions about their willingness to take bold action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After one particularly labored pull, he lifted his head and looked me in the eye and said really clearly, “I can’t breathe.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were Hell because the slaves who labored without end got nothing for their work—except to live another day, to work more. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In time, he heard his wife’s labored, rhythmic breathing and knew she was asleep. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I labored on it, with, I now see, considerable malice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And, turning to me: “Now. Let us begin.” or the next several hours of that day I labored over a Greek legal dispute regarding the ownership of twenty-five oxen ravaged by the mange. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Odyssey speaks of “the divine for which all men long,” and hundreds of years later Aristotle wrote, “Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung living among these who labored at feasting others, heard strange things of which he took little heed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Never in the history of politics has there been such a nefarious lobby as labored to block the ratification in Nashville,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, I heard my father speak to my teacher and felt ashamed of his labored, accented words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jethro labored for long hours beside Bill, and both of them were grave; but no mention was ever made of the things that had been said on the night of Jethro’s nightmare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Enemies in a former Earth Age labored side by side as colleagues and fellow citizens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The streetcar labored on, moving away from the landmarks she knew, the greengrocer’s, the movie theater, the fire hydrants and neighborhood newspaper stands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had had enough of watching the new wife do nothing while the rest of them labored, and she went up to her and told her that the time had come for her to work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z In the moment it took her to take another labored breath, she fell backward in time and remembered another day, another hut. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His nostrils were dark and fiery as he labored around me, pumping up the chair and stropping his razor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Squirrels prepared their winter hoard; ants labored in their earthen castles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That was not all—he labored with humor and good spirits. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “How is it I can understand you and you can understand me?” the creature in the shadows said in between heavy, labored breaths. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The water helped him, though his breath was still labored. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Try to get some sleep, Father. Try to fall asleep . . .” His breathing was labored. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They could hear his labored breath, rattling through the air holes in his visor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I said softly, “Sir, I labored for—” “The common man likes a story,” declared Sharpe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The task was a formidable one, but the dwarf labored at it every day, scratching away as best he could as he sat cross-legged on the cabin roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pictured him, trembling, his breath growing labored, until finally the string breaks ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Doli’s shaggy pony labored through the trees; the bard had ridden his own mount into a lather. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I loved any subject that involved writing and labored through precalc. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His breathing is soft and labored, his brows furrowed, the fire still alight in his gaze. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian listened to his labored exhalations as he struggled with the last ten pushups and remembered the years when Bull could do a hundred with ease. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a nervous time: every afternoon, one of his force later recalled, several thousand Indian soldiers approached in canoes to within “a stone's throw” of the Spanish and mocked them as they labored. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I watch the muscles in Tobias’s back expanding and contracting with each labored breath, and I don’t hear our footsteps; I hear only my heartbeat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The Adjutant commanded those of us who labored provisioning to pull back to Cambridge. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He pursued more stimulating projects, whilst I, alone in the chamber, labored through his Classical obscurities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For the boys still competing for a spot on the freshman crew, the deteriorating weather meant new forms of misery as they labored at their oars aboard Old New. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They were mistaken; the upstart’s experiments succeeded—partly because, in the beginning years, he labored eighteen hours a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sleeping when they got in and her breathing was labored. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Many labored under hot suns and then killed the restless ache with alcohol. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Omakayas asked him, fearful, watching how he sweated and labored at the woodpile. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z "I have labored long to make it so. I am glad the Hand is pleased." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My breathing labored as I struggled to push on with the Operation Save Fig bike-a-thon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As he labored up the Norvelt road incline and past us I saw that he had a police badge pinned to his khaki shirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But I see now how sedulously she labored to create her illusion; for she knew it should protect me only so long as I believed it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Months after the death of Madame Manec, Marie-Laure still waits to hear the old woman come up the stairs, her labored breathing, her sailor’s drawl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But she could hear only their labored breathing and the stamping of their feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Citra’s mother brought him something to drink at his request, and now labored to make sure tonight’s dinner was the finest she had ever served. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z One twist—one little twist and the engine caught and labored and faltered and caught again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No gene, no message, and no protein labored in vain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The labored form of each letter and the irregular space between words was full of the struggle for control over the errant, self-willed pencil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Moving at the snail’s pace that is the norm above 26,000 feet, the throng labored up the Hillary Step one by one, while I nervously bided my time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He and his Brethren labored at the Command of a white Man in dark Duck who pointed with a Cane. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I received further reprimands for my labored and deliberate service, or, as he called it, my sloth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But except for the quiet snuffling of the children, a man’s persistent hacking cough, and Rachel’s labored breathing, no one made a sound. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of clashing weapons and labored breathing filled the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I hope when my parents come to visit over the next few days, my breathing is a little less labored. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Most labored as maids and waiters in homes and hotels, making just enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “He said to Moses, ‘You have toiled and labored, now you are worthy of rest.’” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z That night, I saw how labored her every movement had grown, and I asked about her pains. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We ate in silence, broken only by your labored breaths and the rainstorm lashing the banyan’s branches. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than clients and citizens, we isolated ourselves from the people who were our anchor and on whose behalf we had labored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One of the physicians in the room, Dr. Ezra Abbott, makes notes on Lincoln’s condition: 6:30—still failing and labored breathing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Later that morning Mother’s breathing became increasingly labored. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z With that, he lowered himself into the ooze and, pushing heavy debris aside with every labored step, searched frantically for his mother and brother. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “She died when she birthed me. Alys came, they said, and helped, but I was big and she labored too long, and bled, and she died. It happens sometimes.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’d never labored under the false notion that my mom was infallible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Among the loveliest was the Temple of Thakra, at which a dozen master sculptors had labored for forty years, two of them going blind in the process. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Metal arms labored mightily at the rubbish heap brought down by the last blast. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He sat down, took a series of labored breaths, and began to talk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z His lips nestle close to my ear, and I feel his labored breaths on my skin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Far to her left many black faces labored in a large field near a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For three hours the men labored anxiously in the water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She saw the ghosts of all those unknown dead, heard the great house pant with the labored breath of an old woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As snow began falling and the temperature dropped, the men labored up and down icy slopes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad gave me warm praise when Minister Lemuel Hassan told how hard I had labored in the cause of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Working closely with a former business editor, Glenn Kramon, David labored for months to create a financial portrait of the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It certainly wasn’t like the one she had labored on in Suzuki class so long and with so little result. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Men everywhere, of every color, stripped to the waist, labored in the sun. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z We labored four miles up and over Blood Mountain—at 4,461 feet the highest and toughest eminence on the trail in Georgia—then began a steep and exciting two-mile descent towards Neels Gap. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z While we labored over changing beds or washing up dishes, Pascal would wait outside, teasing for our attention by shouting the handful of American phrases Leah had taught him: “Man-oh-man! Crazy!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She seems grayer, her movements older and labored. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His breathing became labored, but he did not slow down. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Downstairs again, he gathered the girl’s clothing together, stuffed every piece into the suitcases, then labored back down the hall once again and up the stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Lewald’s voice echoed in the background as the announcer labored to fill the air, describing the uniforms of various teams, the platform on which the speakers stood, the Hindenburg circling overhead like a near moon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The shrill cries of babies, the repetitive moans, and the echoes of shallow, labored breathing bombard the large space. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you can,” I told the inmate, opening the same brake Blaine had so labored to close moments before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mami stood there watching, as I picked up the pencil, carefully tore a sheet from my notebook, and, in labored script, wrote, “Dear Tata, I hope when you receive this letter...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There’s a pause, and the sound of my labored breath fills my ears, heartbeat keeping time to the seconds ticking by. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He labored home far behind the winner, Menow, diving for a photo finish for third place. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Estha could see nothing, but he could hear the sound of rasping, labored breathing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early Morning, armed Regiments began to take up Muskets & move about the Fortification; & many who had labored all Night now prepared to defend their Works all Day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Heaving and plunging, the stallion labored through the mire. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo labored for several days, but one morning the lonely-sickness struck her with such force, her spirit felt like it was being circled by hyenas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For an hour they labored to keep the water from capsizing the Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Besides assisting with his legs and feet, Grandma labored on his head, neck, shoulders, back, arms, hands, chest, and abdomen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Nsia’s breath was labored; I feared she suffered from some asphyxiation, and went to tend to her; all her attention being fixed on the object behind me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His breathing was labored; he mumbled and twice flayed his arms as if to shake some invisible attackers off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Father labored late at the gin and came home long after we’d all gone to bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z However that was, he labored long and devotedly on the statue and produced a most exquisite work of art. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Morris was a Lawrence fan who labored ceaselessly to solicit donations for the Rad Lab from his circle of distinguished friends. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As his old rival Specify flew to the victory, Seabiscuit labored in sixth, Kayak eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Juanita got the words out between labored breaths, and I knew what she was talking about. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His bony fingers hold his glasses across his chest, which rises and falls with each labored breath. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet he labored on, struggling up a long, dim slope. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Do you remember,” he drawled reflectively, with an air of labored recollection, “that girl who was hitting me on the head that day in Rome?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There were one hundred twenty- five in all, and I could hear the labored breathing of my fellow travelers as we climbed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Ball drew his last, labored breaths in Hall’s arms, lying comatose in a small tent high on the peak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z With his face pressed close to mine, I could hear his labored breathing in my ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ail you could hear for a moment was labored breathing, carbonated bubbles going berserk in two dozen beer bellies, the beer coolers humming, and the ice machine tumbling chunks into its aluminum trough. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Hamilton labored like a giant, not only with his strong arms and rough hands but also with his heart and spirit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Joe’s old Franklin labored and coughed and wheezed, crawling up the long, steep ascent to Blewett Pass, high in the Cascade Mountains. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z No morning breezes cooled Lupita as she labored in the same field as the day before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Charles, beside me, stood out sharp and almost hyper-realistic with his ruddy cheeks and labored breaths but further down, Henry had become a wraith, his large form light and strangely insubstantial in the mist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Through bleary eyes, Tally saw that it was a 3-D copy of the note, perfect down to the slight incisions of Shay’s labored penmanship on the paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I brought my laptop, which soon also labored under the e-mail onslaught. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All that could be heard in the dining room was Clara’s labored breathing and the metallic clang of the keys at Ferula’s waist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in our hut, he slouches into the bamboo walls and his breath sounds labored and exhausted with each word. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stripped now, half-naked, we did not look conspicuous, being no more indecent than many of the slaves who labored in the fields around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z While my teachers labored over the rigors of their chosen subject, I sat in the back, pretty much bored out of my mind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They labored together so closely for such long, unbroken hours that it was understandable that their contributions to the finished product blurred into one another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He held the boy and bent to hear the labored suck of air. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I promise to give you a tour later, when all the excitement is over,” Og said, his breathing a bit labored. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So I labored with diligence at my music, in which a court lady must be accomplished. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I searched high and low until my breath grew labored, but I found the castle strangely deserted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The sound of crunching leaves and labored breathing filled the warm autumn air, and Celaena kept her gaze on the damp and gleaming dark hair of the thief in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Workers labored, carrying bricks and wood beams from carts and stacking them on the site. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I labored with excitement that first morning—and all the days after. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We hoisted Gau into the rear of the helicopter, and the machine labored tentatively into the air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Quentin had labored over a way to test our powder all week and proudly presented his plan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up, shut up!” she cried, and I could tell from her labored breaths that she was as exhausted as I was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z More water sprayed from the walls, and still the crew labored. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The ropes tightened; the steeds labored; Taran heaved and tugged at the immovable cauldron. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The Otter remained at anchor near the point where we labored; thus covered, we returned to our duties. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Along an unused railway spur, four workmen labored in the shadowy red heat, setting up a platform and steel launchers for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Girls as young as ten and women old enough to be grandmothers labored alongside her. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z A splash, a labored beating of wings, and Zerubabel was in a gull’s beak, its pale, pink shell already crushed, its tiny pincers loosely dangling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The tides had almost buried the canoe, and I labored many days to dig it out of the sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the Chinese-style plow was imported in the seventeenth century, farmers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other states labored to shove what amounted to a narrow slab of metal through the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the rest of the night, Houseman and Stewart labored over the script, adding details, sprucing up dialogue, and building suspense. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Yossarian tried paying no attention to him and limped wearily to his cot and sat down with a labored, drawn-out grunt. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As he labored home last, he heard tittering. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z All across the decks, crewmen called and labored under the hot sun, orienting sails, drilling for fire attacks, clearing deck materials as they readied for the fight that they hoped would come. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The labored banter of his friends was only making his head ache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Matthias labored over the fire, trying to get it to do more than smoke. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The tiny puppy, motionless but for its labored breathing, lay in the curve of her belly, the way any puppy would. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z We did not speak much as we labored. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was for this that we labored and fought, risking our very lives. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Times critic Clive Barnes praised Ms. DeHaven, confessing he had loved her “since she was a movie starlet and I was a schoolboy,” but found the show “so labored and so unfunny.” Gloria DeHaven, Sweetheart in Many a Movie Musical, Dies at 91 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Latham, 50, a mother of three and married to a postal worker, labored from 7 a.m. to midnight Friday and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The second-best flower shop in Naperville, Ill., is struggling to survive. Along with the American Dream. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The movie is labored, overly familiar and about 10 miles away from deep -- an elemental, sometimes excremental comedy about petty twits behaving badly. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z A rendition of Brahms’s Violin Concerto — with Maxim Vengerov as soloist — thrilled during some high-octane passages, but sometimes also sounded labored. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Solely because of its triumphant central coupling, this labored prequel -- which doesn't get Robin Hood and his Merrie Men into the forest until the very end -- may form the basis for a viable franchise. "Robin Hood's" smoldering adult romance 2010-05-14T00:20:00Z She meets with artists who have labored in isolation for years and masters whose work she helps document and archive. Discovering Contemporary African Art, With a Curator as a Guide 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But the comparison just gets more labored and obvious across the show’s five hours, and it culminates in a revelation about Alex’s work that flies past implausible and lands on lunatic. Review: ‘London Spy’ Follows an Unlikely Investigator With Love on His Mind 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A staff of more than 40 labored in the kitchen. How often are D.C.’s top chefs actually in the kitchen? Those places, and the people who labored there, became his subjects. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Camerawork, both frantic and labored, gets in the way of dancing, creating a slickness — and a sameness — that turns stale fast. Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Every step of even getting to the top of the bunny hill was excruciatingly labored. The Ups and Downs of Learning to Ski 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z National Geographic’s photographers labored for weeks under harsh conditions to capture a single image of, say, a sea-otter mom working off her megajoules. National Geographic explores new frontiers with Gary Knell at the helm The music in the concert’s first half was sympathetic and duly elegant but also vaguely unsettled, even a bit labored. Music Review: Keith Jarrett Opens CareFusion Festival at Carnegie 2010-06-20T21:35:00Z Hershel explained to Rick that he labored so tirelessly to keep the dead away from the living because fear is a contagious condition. The Walking Dead Watch: “Internment” 2013-11-11T03:01:06Z The decision on the photographs was more labored. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z Many labored on vast rice plantations south of the city. Ben Affleck's slave-owning family tree: records sketch a conflicted past 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Like many composers of his time, Chausson labored under the anxious influence — what he called the “ardent and despotic inspiration” — of Wagner. A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z And we can also work toward greater recognition for those who have labored in the local and global Canadian sugar industry. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z In most cases, these are contemporary American success stories of women, buoyed by self-sacrificing parents who often labored at difficult, modestly-paying jobs to improve their children’s lives and set indelible examples that still inspire them. Framingham author highlights ‘Wise Latinas’ 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Tyga is a labored rapper at best, though he’s capable of a variety of cadences. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z He labored for years at losing conscious control over his creations. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z Ms. Grunwald gave this reporter a tour of the writer’s nook off the living room where she labored to produce five usable pages a day of “Henry House.” Up Close: Lisa Grunwald?s True Colors 2010-04-21T21:07:00Z But as the company amassed global influence, he began to be seen as a kind of dark online prince, and he labored to restyle himself as a plausible civic leader. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In "Super Sad True Love Story," you could smell Gary Shteyngart sweat as he labored to keep his outrageous satire one step ahead of dismal current events. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z Two centuries ago this neglected London edifice was a workhouse, where the city's destitute labored for rations of gruel. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z In Colvin she is made to deliver her labored annunciations in service of playing a working-class girl motivated to take down venal big-city bosses because they essentially ruined her father’s life. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z But another 24 hours later, my family labored through hymns and tears at her bedside. Finally, a Wedding. It Was About Time. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Although Élisabeth longed to be a writer, and labored on a secret autobiographical novel for 20 years, she never published it. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Every time I thrust myself forward a few labored feet at a time and heard the wheels grinding on the concrete, I was reminded of the limits of my growing body. Jackson Heights, Roller Skates 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z He continued to struggle with his weight and sometimes looked labored during performances. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z “Cargo,” by contrast, has real unity, but it’s both earnest and thin, an example of the Expressionistic side of Mr. Morris’s talent at its most labored. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Each word felt heavy on my tongue as I labored through the simple sentence, stunned by the glow that surrounded her. 'Tis the season to love or hate on Mariah Carey 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z It is a different landscape than the one Mr. Gelb recalled confronting early in his career, when he labored to cajole the pianist Vladimir Horowitz into appearing in a documentary. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “And,” he adds, gearing up for the zinger, each “had to facilitate an endless procession of facile observations and labored one-liners.” From Bomb to Bust 2010-10-22T16:02:00Z The project echoes Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Watch Me Work,” an event at the 2011 Under the Radar Festival during which Ms. Parks labored on a project in the lobby of the Public Theater . Write Out Front at the Drama Book Shop 2012-08-17T22:48:47Z Ambitious and labored, Mr. Nguyen’s play, produced by the Playwrights Realm at the Duke on 42nd Street, is set in the misty long ago of 2012. Review: In Search of Intelligent Life and a Willing Sperm Donor 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z So often people write of late-night quiet, but our late nights were filled with the sound of my son’s labored breathing and the hiss of his nebulizer delivering medicine through a child-size surgical mask. Motherlode Blog: So Much More Than Peter Rabbit 2013-07-29T00:28:08Z It is impossible not to admit that this final volume, nearly twice the length of the more kinetic “Bring Up the Bodies,” becomes woefully labored. Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z However mightily the violist Elizabeth Weisser and the pianist Stephen Gosling labored, their exertions seemed lost in a compressed mix, overshadowed by assaultive digital squelch. Music Review: Talea Ensemble Performs in Vienna: City of Dreams Festival 2014-03-05T20:44:43Z Recalling his company’s work on an airport in Beijing, Mr. Foster marvels at the Chinese government’s ability to mobilize 50,000 workers, who labored in staggered, round-the-clock shifts and lived onsite. Movie Review: ?How Much Does Your Building Weigh,? on Norman Foster 2012-01-25T01:00:22Z Mr. Trpceski concluded with the great “Wanderer Fantasy” Sonata, which sounded strangely calculated, labored and largely unmoving here. Music in Review: Yale in New York in an All-Handel Evening at Zankel HallMacedonian Pianist Simon Trpceski at Zankel Hall 2012-02-28T23:30:49Z “With a Little Help From My Friends” and “When I’m Sixty-Four” are labored exercises in cutely sentimental comedy. Review: Mark Morris’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The interpretation sounded labored and sometimes clunky, with little sense of the work’s overall architecture, although there were musical moments during the more serene études. Music Review: Joaqu?n Ach?carro at Mannes College the New School for Music 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z In retelling the story, he panted to show how labored her breathing was and quoted her last words to him — which were about the afterlife: “‘ There is one. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z McCarthy, who has labored for years in bit parts, is also a scene-stealer in the raunchy summer hit movie "Bridesmaids". Young plus skinny = hot? Think again, say Emmy voters 2011-07-14T19:25:36Z So it’s slightly puzzling that this smartly designed production, at BAM Fisher, feels labored. Review: ‘The Medium’ Is Less a Message and More a Museum Piece 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The movie doesn’t “get” him because he can’t be gotten, really, in any medium other than the one in which he so meticulously labored. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z Since nothing is so labored over as a novel itself, I’m keeping this in mind for the following book review: The heroines of “Something Unbelievable” want nothing short of honesty. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z For her part, Ms. Davis labored to make her character to be both relatable and courageous. Carpetbagger Blog: Mississippi Memories and 'The Help' 2011-12-08T14:38:23Z He labored over his songs, refining them as if he were polishing gems. Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z I always return to William Butler Yeats, probably to him more than anyone else, almost entirely for the music and for the way he labored at his craft. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z While most of us labored to make ourselves comfortable on the meager throw pillows, Fripp and his pupils sat in utter silence for what seemed like an eternity. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Various prominent figures — including Father Edward J. Flanagan, the venerated founder of the pioneering residential program Boys Town — labored to get young Nicholls paroled. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z The strenuous piano writing eventually yields a slow, Sisyphean climb up the keyboard, not once but twice, the second trudge seeming merely repetitive and labored. Charlotte Hellekant and John Luther Adams at Spoleto USA 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z As befits a writer who labored on network comedies like “Becker” and “The Naked Truth,” Mr. Weiner can be effortlessly funny, but he can turn abruptly serious and imperious, especially where his show is concerned. Television: Matthew Weiner Is Silent on ?Mad Men? Season Premiere 2012-03-07T12:55:00Z In keeping with the utopian ideals of collective work and anonymous authorship, the artists labored together to conceptualize, design and write slogans for the posters that framed their revolutionary sentiments. Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Even Maggie Smith’s marvelously entertaining, extra-dry performance as Violet lost some of its radiance over the seasons, as the aphorisms she was given to deliver became more labored. Review: For the Crawleys and ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Beginning of the End 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The language he used is venomously over-the-top and, like every Champion screed I’ve ever read, contorted with labored metaphors of bodily disgust and humiliation. “He didn’t care if he destroyed himself as long as he hurt you”: The sad, disturbing case of Ed Champion 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Yet all the cast’s resourcefulness isn’t enough to keep confusion and tedium at bay as this labored allegory unfolds in a painstaking parade of equivalencies. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Evidently, carefree farce is as much in fashion as Ms. Morgan’s labored sentimentality. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z If you had to drag it out of two dancers, everybody would be labored and exhausted, but because these guys get it, you can go boom, boom, boom.” Twyla Tharp’s Troupe Prepares for a Milestone Tour 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z There is a labored surprise involving Streep that seems almost like an act of trolling intended to challenge the liberal good will on which the movie otherwise depends. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Arguably his outstanding achievement, though, is "Light Prop for an Electric Stage," a complicated kinetic sculpture that he labored on between 1929 and 1930. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Justin Roberts, known as “the Freshman,” quietly labored behind a computer monitor. Is Jake Paul a Social Media Genius or a Jerk? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In an earlier generation, many of Bravado’s design team would have labored over album sleeves — in fact, some did. Buying the Shirt Off Justin Bieber’s Back 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Atria acquired the rights in 2010, after reading about 25 pages and labored to keep it secret while Mr. McCaig worked. ‘Gone With the Wind’ Prequel Coming in October 2014-03-26T21:40:58Z For those familiar with her biography, the poetry becomes a shadow journal — a document of her inner life, her hungers, as she left home young, labored in factories, taught high school students, taught cops. A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z His eyes would bulge as he labored to drink his iced tea. How one father learned to care 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Both films represent the vision of dedicated directors, who labored for years to get their work on screen despite having impressive credits. The Carpetbagger: Glimmers of Hope for Small Films During Glittery Oscar Promotions 2010-12-01T22:58:00Z But the playing is so yanked around rhythmically that the music sounds labored. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Though the conceit grows a bit labored at times, it’s an amusing and ingenious avenue of self-exploration that for some in the audience will hold a measure of hope in a time of jeopardy. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In these experiments, I might have absorbed some technique, apprehended a writer’s rhythm, imprinting in a sense upon his labored aesthetic like a baby chick upon a mother hen. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z For the two centuries in between, the common perception was that, as Mr. Kerman wrote, “Lully’s recitative is bloodless, its vigor carefully paced, its passion channeled, its nobility stereotyped and labored.” ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z For all its color and firepower, I found the performance labored and driven. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z After centuries of federal encroachment over tribal affairs, the Department of Interior labored to implement a policy that provided greater sovereign power to tribes, not less. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z For his part, Johnson vowed to stand against Republican opponents who, he charged, labored to “pervert and destroy” the government with their Reconstruction policies. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The music’s abstract mystery curdled into something labored and portentous. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z Its least labored is the final track, “Vines,” which arrives at a difficult truth: “There are things that songs can’t say.” New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z Their romance lifts the movie into a realm of pure nonsense, and their graceful, inventive idiocy makes the rest of it look labored and overdone. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Though those links sometimes felt labored, it was a refreshing change of pace to zip between analytical and emotional connections to Ms. Brenner’s honed phrases. Dance Review: Glancing Backward, Then Facing Forward 2011-04-10T21:54:32Z And they also spoke to the contemporary world without the labored effort that was evident in some of the first-half offerings. Classical artists show that when it comes to new music, pop may be better 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z While the show's presentation emphasized simplicity, Welch labored over every note and every mood shift in her complicated song structures. Gillian Welch ? simple, spare, stunning 2011-07-14T21:09:04Z For all the focus on saxophones, a Coltrane tribute lives or dies by its rhythm section, and this one labored admirably. Music Review: Big Bang?s Echoes, 50 Years Later 2011-04-22T21:52:51Z This four-character play, a Page 73 production that I saw early in the year, is set around the kitchen table, a space where food is labored over and recipes are passed down. Eat Up! Drama is Served at These Family Dinners 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Most critics found it long, labored and not particularly thrilling. William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Prince Andrew was always seen as much more of a party-happy playboy than older brother Prince Charles, so much so that he once labored under the nickname "Randy Andy." Prince Harry emerges as cool, fun face of monarchy 2011-04-03T12:03:10Z Critics said it lacked the "va-voom" of The Spice Girls and labored under an "insultingly banal" script, poor performances and a gloomy set. Viva was not forever for Spice Girls as London musical closes 2013-05-02T10:22:00Z Katz used the flash on his camera to illuminate the rock pile where he and others labored in a nighttime rescue effort. A journalist at the epicenter of Haiti’s ordeal 2013-01-10T00:50:11Z The number of women who labored in basement meetings, in consciousness-raising groups, in boardrooms, in unions, in news organizations and in their own kitchens to expand possibilities for women are far too many to count. The Women Who Met Hillary, and Spotted a Future Political Star 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z “A Strange Loop” was a passion project for Jackson, who labored on the musical for more than a decade. ‘A Strange Loop,’ Which Won Best Musical, to End Broadway Run 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Her 2013 play, “Grimly Handsome,” was similarly elusive but a lot less labored. ‘Nomads’ at the Incubator Arts Project 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z This movie’s George Jones is a labored contrivance. ‘Country Gold’ Review: A Rising Star’s Wild(ish) Night With a Legend 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z He maintains that Noah labored seven decades to construct his vessel and was 600 years old when the storm surged. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z But where Shawn labored to counteract the perceived effeminacy of dancing men, Madboots is serious about expanding the range of masculinity in dance by ignoring the supposed boundaries of gender. Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z There’s none of the labored hectoring of “Freedom,” and if “Purity” isn’t as much fun as “The Corrections,” it’s free of the self-indulgence that sometimes marred that fantastic novel. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Although the film uses a conventional format, it makes an urgent argument: that a new wave of voter suppression has threatened the rights that Lewis labored to secure. ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ Review: Past Progress, and More to Come 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z He labored at restaurants in France, Morocco, Switzerland and Jamaica. Roger Vergé, French chef who championed nouvelle cuisine, dies at 85 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z For generations, African American women from Maryland's rural, maritime communities labored for crab houses on the Eastern Shore. Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s local economy 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Margulies specifically mentioned her series’s “22 episodes a year,” an obvious obstacle to producing the kind of crystalline, carefully considered storytelling labored over on the likes of “True Detective.” What the Emmys revealed about the broadcast vs. cable war raging on TV 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The focus becomes fuzzy, and the writing, hitherto so confident, suddenly feels labored and scrappy. Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z She also labored, fruitlessly, to understand Ms. Johnson’s intricate calculations, going so far as to skip Beyoncé’s May 1 concert at the Georgia Dome to do her math homework. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Later, as he labored on a double degree in photography and art history, he also worked as a house painter. Texas student uses photos to feature immigrants 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z He is an engaging performer, but “Wow + Flutter,” which suffered from a self-consciously labored script, didn’t quite live up to the promise of an immersive, altered experience. Dance Review | 'Wow + Flutter': Lights, Gadgets and Video Create a Technological Id 2010-03-04T23:04:00Z It wasn’t long ago that Mr. Matsui himself labored on a conveyor belt as a struggling actor. A Japanese Director's World Debut 2010-05-26T12:30:00Z There, Colette labored in secret to produce novels under her husband’s nom de plume, “Willy,” but chafed at his controlling nature and expectations that she should be a pliant society wife. In ‘Colette,’ Keira Knightley Trades Her Corsets for a Daring Suit 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The consequences of her doing so are mapped by Ms. Jordan in ways that can feel labored. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Though the “Hunt” is certainly playful at times, there is also a rather dutiful, labored element to it. Music Review: Perter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2012-11-13T23:52:09Z This fleet dancer’s usual dazzle seemed to have deserted him on Wednesday, as he rather labored through jumps and turns that would normally be cause for fireworks. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z Boothies — the term, some say, originated as an insult used by Lincoln scholars — have long labored under the suspicion of being apologists for the assassin, or worse. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The labored timeline is not helped by the equally labored dialogue. Review: ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’ Is Fashionable, but Flat 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z He worked on many things during the years he labored on "Patience," including covers for the New Yorker magazine, but spoke little about the book in progress. Daniel Clowes is looking for a role model in comics (sort of) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Every word and every note was thoughtfully labored over. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Some have played one or two prominent film parts or labored in the salt mines of supporting television roles, while others have hardly been seen on screen before. The New Season: Kat Dennings and Other Young Actresses Star on TV 2011-09-14T23:40:26Z The few that stand out — Mr. Hall’s fireplug, Topher Grace’s glib fixer — make the labored introductions superfluous. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z “I should like to express the slow and labored birth of beings and things in nature,” he wrote, “their gradual blossoming, and finally the joy of being born into some new life.” Perspective | Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z And yet, this year as the others, the underdogs labored. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z These passages sometimes devolve into labored imitations of Céline — so willfully perverse and repetitious that they gradually lose their shock value, becoming gratuitously stomach-turning. Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Here, on a campus where slaves once labored and African American students were not welcomed until almost a century after emancipation, the right to speak freely is not an abstract concept. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Donzelli’s approach is distinguished by contrivances that play as tics: a labored framing device, a tendency to begin scenes with the actors remaining motionless to simulate a freeze frame, and more. Review: ‘Marguerite & Julien,’ a Tale of Siblings in Love 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Even Leonardo da Vinci had labored on an inventive flying machine — his bird-like "ornithopter." Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Kirstein worked to devise ballets that would be American and labored for many months with Balanchine on an adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z I labored for the most intense, back-breaking four hours of my life. No more C-section shaming: How my disastrous natural childbirth made me a believer in medical birth 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He was talking about Merce Cunningham, but that’s true too of Ms. Tanowitz, a choreographer who labored quietly at her craft for decades and now is suddenly in demand everywhere. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z I feel like crying at the suspicion that the construction of the self I'd labored over had perhaps been only reactions to circumstance. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But the chewy directional changes make the choreography, which needs a larger stage, labored. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Whatever the case, as she labored, her band smoothly churned, with a balance of muscle and finesse. Miranda Lambert, Rowdy in the Catskills 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Bolton’s lawyers argued that he had labored painstakingly for months with the White House to address concerns over classified information. Judge weighs US bid to stop release of John Bolton’s book 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z One shabby-pickup chase or courtyard shootout looks much like another, and Stollman and his fellow writers have labored to give the season’s narrative a little more structure and thematic heft. ‘Bosch’ and ‘Fauda’: The Platonic Ideal of the Tough Guy 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Channeling the spirit of my pioneer ancestors, I swept the porch, tidied the cabin and labored for hours, making soup and baking mulberry cake in the fireplace. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z Among the locals are those descended from Tubman’s family and others who lived and labored alongside them. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a lively, feel-good romp with plenty of irreverent humor, though the narrative borders on hagiography, and its core message about embracing male vulnerability is labored to the point of soppiness. ‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z She labored in Maryland's tobacco fields, but things started to change when farmers switched their main crop to wheat. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z “But other journalists with close ties to presidents have labored to develop an image of independence. I don’t think Stephanopoulos ever has.” Republicans take the heat off of ABC’s Stephanopoulos 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Cooper plays the role without the use of prosthetics, contorting his arm and face and speaking in a labored, high-pitched voice. Bradley Cooper on 'American Sniper': Chris Kyle 'didn't really leave me' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I held her hand and watched her labored breathing. Her secret history: I discovered my mother’s digital life after her death 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Along with his seven older siblings, Bruno labored in the vineyards as a child but hated the experience. Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 74 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z His misconceptions about Chinese people, and his vegetarianism, fell by the wayside as he labored to learn the local dialect and stay open-minded when asked to try unusual foods such as millipedes. New memoir navigates rural China's social minefields 2011-08-04T14:16:16Z There, soon-to-be mothers labored in darkened hallways as the city above them exploded. Perspective | What mothers know about war 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The first movement of Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 features flowing arpeggios that Mr. Siem labored over; in the elegiac second movement he lacked any discernible emotion at all. Music Review: Charlie Siem, Violinist, at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-26T21:11:39Z Nace: We actually really labored over the order on "Coming Apart." "It's a stoner record for non-stoners": Body/Head's "The Switch" 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Her own charity work owes much to her admiration for her father, who labored in tobacco fields and construction sites and could not read. Country singer Dolly Parton raises laughs at charity awards gala 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Thus, the ostensibly triumphal coda, Mr. Zander explained before the performance, is meant to sound beaten down and labored: points missed outright even in benchmark interpretations. Music Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:14:02Z Yet it is neither the labored premise nor the naked man hanging upside down from a butcher’s hook, dripping red paint, that produces the big effects. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Based on a novel of the same name by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, this French-Portuguese co-production is a witty and energetic — if also somewhat labored — mélange of languages, tones and ideas. Review: ‘Cosmos’ Is a Madcap Plunge Into Retro Avant-Gardism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Aside from some bursts of spirited unison choreography for Ms. Wallich and her group, the action is too limited, too labored. Review: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich in a World of Angst 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z A charming hedonist becomes an unlikely would-be assassin in “13 Minutes,” a respectful but labored biopic of a village carpenter whose 1939 plot to blow up the Führer was foiled by bad timing. Review: From Wooing Women to Plotting Hitler’s Murder in ‘13 Minutes’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But in striving to reveal its monumental and harrowing qualities, Mr. Toradze sometimes sounded halting and labored. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Welders labored over metal beams, and workers in hard hats crisscrossed a cavernous former steel fabrication shop on the eastern edge of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one recent afternoon. Brooklyn Steel, the Bowery Presents’ Latest Project, Cements Its Presence 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z He is nearly 100, losing his hearing and plagued with labored breathing that is unnerving to behold. Review: A Couple’s Adoration After 76 Years of Marriage in ‘My Love, Don’t Cross That River’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The pages flip by, in realistic motion, showing draft after labored draft of songs like “Tangled Up in Blue,” with key passages highlighted and explanatory context added. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z After hearing how Hearst endlessly labored for the “common man,” I knew that it was time for a drink. California’s Central Coast, overflowing with attractions What he lacked in technique, he made up for in the quality of his suggestion, surreptitiously setting a bar that even the most humble subject labored to surpass. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z But a second viewing of the same solo showed too many of the bad sides of the Bolshoi style — above all, the labored, after-the-beat emphasis. Bolshoi Ballet Turns Back the Clock in Its New York Season 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z After “The Prince of Tides,” Mr. Conroy labored for nearly a decade on his next novel, “Beach Music,” suffering a nervous breakdown — not his first — along the way. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Close, in a black jacket and pants, was visibly giddy at the reception for a project she had labored on for more than 15 years. Carpetbagger Blog: And on This Floor, a Cross-Cultural Who's Who 2011-12-16T15:15:05Z Some of the mixes and cutting looked labored, and the conical bra cups will be jettisoned for production. Fashion Review: Pursuit of the New, or Just the Sellable 2010-09-13T21:34:00Z If that means that the album becomes labored in its second half, when an existential fatigue seems to replace the careful pacing, so be it; it remains a wonderful experiment in the power of absence. | Pop: The xx’s Album ‘Coexist’ 2012-09-10T03:00:08Z He's the one who's basically biding his time until he ultimately gets killed and that was something -- that was a terrible situation he's been labored under for most of the season. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z The captious, however, might complain that Levi’s autobiographical writings are somewhat repetitive, his essays a bit dry and his fantasy fiction rather labored. ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But you’re right, as the story labored toward its climax the show proved less than capable of supporting the very large ideas it courted. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z But the labored screen adaptation shows regrettably few signs of personal fire, and many signs of a work that has been sapped of the intimacy of live theater. ‘My Happy Ending’ Review: When Life Goes Off Script 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition of wide-eyed villagers and labored aphorisms with shopping malls and casual sex may accurately reflect Mr. Li’s book, but on screen it feels absurdly outdated. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z And Kandinsky labored for five months to plan his apparently spontaneous painting, drawing 20 almost identical sketches. The path from hard work to genius 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z These gonk-women just seemed thoroughly odd, labored and slow, though interestingly driven — helpless, possessed — when horizontal. Dance Review: Symmetry, Motion and Divergent Aesthetics 2012-07-02T22:15:33Z Mostly, though, it’s a labored device that works against Mr. Doremus’s sometimes persuasive groping for realism. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z For many years, beginning in the late 1970s, Mr. Anderson labored over three large-scale acrylic paintings he called “Idylls.” Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Lau-Lavie, the rabbi, said he labored to “be cautious, be alert, be polite” when conducting services alfresco. These Booths Are Made For Talking: Soothers Hit the Streets 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z He labored on road crews and construction sites until they went away. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z He is a far more labored rapper than YG, and his lyrics are blunt. New Albums From YG and Sage the Gemini 2014-03-19T17:52:29Z I could have barked orders at them while they labored in miniature Crocs until they mastered the art of a uniform dice, or even just remembered to use a cutting board. I didn't teach my kids how to cook. Did I fail them? 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z More than 100 participants will be judged on their ability to execute and hold poses, as well as their gracefulness and poise; shakiness and labored breathing are no-no’s. Spare Times for March 2-8 2012-03-01T22:33:12Z Titans of Tangled Finances Kick Up Their Heels Again In Lucy Prebble’s “Enron,” the flashy but labored economics lesson that opened on Tuesday night at the Broadhurst Theater, money doesn’t just talk. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z When the film was edited in the United States, RZA labored to reduce it from three hours to about 96 minutes. For RZA, Hip-Hop Was Just a Prelude to Kung Fu 2012-10-17T12:09:43Z McVeigh learned of this while doing research in the British Library, where she found the private diary of a doctor who labored to bring public attention to the epidemic. ‘The Fever Tree’: a Victorian epidemic in South Africa 2013-07-24T22:06:30Z She labored over her sentences, writing and rewriting. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a Novelist Who Went on a Quest for an Authentic Life 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z As the nurse labored away, others in the group started praying, Alphonso Williams said. Neighbors thought they witnessed a tragedy. Then a sign appeared: ‘You Saved My Life!’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z This massive operation was funded, almost entirely, by the work of people who labored in parts of The Times building I never visited: the advertising and circulation departments. For Labor Day, an appreciation of unheralded literary labor 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí labored over the cathedral for most of his life but never completed it. A Masterpiece Mired in Its Creator’s Vision 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “The women sweated over fires and labored over small errands,” Faleiro writes. The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But overall, the piece feels labored and didactic — all the more so since Shakespeare’s magical “Tempest” looms over it. GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say, most women present had labored longer over the decision. At the Met Gala, Everyone Seems a Little Starstruck. Even the Stars. 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z All four of these men labored under the burden of the profession’s elusive reputation — and a general public that often saw them as either useless frauds or all-knowing wizards. An arsonist was terrorizing rural Virginia. But he had a peculiar way of doing it. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z I guess every story requires someone to dress in black with labored breathing. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z She had perfected her smile, if you can call it that, by studying Wallace’s labored grimace in Nick Park’s stop-motion comedy franchise “Wallace and Gromit.” Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Weinstein, clutching his aluminum walker, labored his way into the courthouse Monday, when legal arguments were the only thing on the agenda. A week into Harvey Weinstein’s trial, here’s what we know and we can expect as the high-profile case continues 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z You see the labored exertion in Pam’s — and Watts’s — every step as clearly as the puffs of frigid air she exhales. ‘Infinite Storm’ Review: Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Extreme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z As the Texas power grid labored, its human power structure flickered. The grid leaves us powerless 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Anna had labored over Anthony’s list with him and she was confident that he had led with a major teaching center. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z He scowled as his crew labored to get it just right, while I pinched myself at this private concert. The Day Prince Tried to Convert Me Into A Jehovah's Witness 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In the decades since, Wertheim and Sorrentino have labored to sift the truth about Crane’s life from the myth, editing his correspondence and a log of biographical documents. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Mexicans labored amid ruins Wednesday to revive their capital the day after an earthquake left more than 200 dead, reduced buildings to rubble and brought one of the world’s largest cities to a halt. Rescuers search for earthquake survivors in Mexico 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z In another episode, she talks about her father and another uncle, Eddie, who labored for years in the service industry and other working-class jobs but who died young, with little access to health care. Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z And yet there was always something sneaky about Charo’s performances, even as the culture labored to box her in. The Brilliance of Charo 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z When it ceased operations for reasons undisclosed, Mr. Rich labored to keep his name alive. Richie Rich, the ’90s Club Kid, Goes Virtual for Beauty 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z He labored over his clips, plotting out shots and consulting heavily with the directors. How David Bowie Went Mainstream 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z They nailed the ballroom lift for their first dance, which they had labored over for weeks. Perspective | How Springsteen and soy sauce brought this couple together 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Each exhalation was more labored than the last. See no evil: Is the muted outcry over the video of Michael Sabbie’s beating proof we’ve all become uncomfortably numb? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In fact, the joy of his keen, intelligent and happily unprovocative show was that nothing appeared labored. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z For the past decade, Duster and a few friends have labored, dollar by dollar, to raise $300,000 to build a monument to Wells. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Markus: It can have a really good plot, as opposed to a labored setup. 'Captain America: Civil War' Writers on How to Write a Believable Fight Scene 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z They briefly clasped hands at the dinner, but the usual feigned bonhomie at what is officially a nonpartisan dinner was labored. The Most Awkward Dinner Party of the Year 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z They offer a reminder, in the ethereal era of bitmapping, that type was once the tangible province of engravers and metal casters who labored in unforgiving but enduring media. Exhibition Review: ?Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic? - Review 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z Plywood walkways protecting the decorative stone and tile floors snaked through the four main halls, where workers in overalls and steel-toed boots labored alongside T-shirted techies hunched over laptops. ‘Futures’ comes alive in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Adjmi may be poking fun at the labored innuendo of the original show, but these scattershot diversions simply aren’t funny. Theater Review: ‘3C,’ by David Adjmi, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 2012-06-25T02:00:00Z For his own amusement he labored over images of his 19th-century literary idols — Dickens, Thackeray. Bradley Craft turns literary characters into caricatures 2012-02-18T00:26:31Z After a steady diet of Hollywood deaths, real ones–the labored breathing, the body becoming a slack husk–seem uncanny, alien. Dead Tree Alert: How TV Does, and Doesn’t, Deal With Death 2013-10-24T14:59:19Z But the labored cheapness of the offerings by Ms. Young, Ms. Patek and others drags the festival into the determinedly banal. Dance Review: At American Realness Festival, a Range of ‘Fringe’ 2014-01-16T23:19:53Z After a stint at the celebrated Bay Area restaurant La Folie, Mr. Keao labored in Silicon Valley, running the Hangout Cafe at Google for a time. A San Francisco Restaurant Serving Hawaiian Cuisine (Hold the Pineapple) 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Until recently, he labored in relative obscurity in his studio space, a cavernous converted church in former East Berlin. A Marriage of Art and Film at Berlin Festival 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Workmen in traditional French azure overalls and jackets labored on the sides of roads. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z That would be the labored wheezing that accompanies his every breath. Theater Review: Shuler Hensley in ‘The Whale,’ by Samuel D. Hunter 2012-11-06T03:00:22Z But the Stravinsky didn’t sell me either; Lintu labored to find a convincing through line, and the orchestra was only intermittently better. Review | A strong pianist tries, and fails, to save an evening 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The box office is expected to take a dip Sunday night — at least Hollywood hopes it does, since the industry has labored frantically to jack up the Oscar ceremony's sagging ratings. Box Office Report: Alice's Wonderful Weekend 2010-03-08T18:15:00Z Mr. Storey may have labored over his novels, but he dashed off his plays as if they arrived at a moment’s inspiration. David Storey, British playwright, novelist who wrote ‘This Sporting Life,’ dies at 83 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A sense of self-limitation in no way curbed his efforts, though; he sometimes labored 14 hours a day in ill-paid laboratory research. Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Chausson, who also wrote the libretto, labored on it for almost a decade — not because he was stuck, but because he wanted to get it right. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The whole production feels truncated and rushed, and it’s filled with labored, lumpy poetry. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z Velázquez’s touch is, as ever, incomparable — nothing labored, everything just so, as the black volumes of his sitter’s body activate the nebulous, dead space all around. Review | Buried deep in a disappointing Rembrandt and Velázquez show are two portraits that demand to be seen 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z As he labored over his essays, she wrote him: “As we both know, it won’t go on forever. But it would be more bearable if I had a timetable.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Instead the emphasis was all Expressionistic, all labored and all tiresome. Dance Review: Eva Yerbabuena Stars in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-10T21:17:14Z Reviewing “Dog Years” two years later, Prescott called it a “labored, tiresome, pitilessly dull novel,” and again made mention of “offensive indecencies.” Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Forty-nine different presenters labored over poorly written skit material before each envelope was opened. Margaret Cho’s squeamish Globes cameo: Why her North Korean bit was so weird to watch 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z He idealized a world out of reach of technological progress and the silence in which a farm worker labored: “The generations of the past are with him in their silence.” Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z But what comedy to think how the writers and critics who loved her labored to get her mastery treated as majesty when she’s so evidently supreme. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z As a child, I embraced wholeheartedly the mysteries of my Catholicism, even as I labored gamely to comprehend them. This is my flesh: Holy communion as an act of human connection, from sex to childbirth to death 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Hobson’s rather dour interpretation of the Schumann sometimes sounded labored and humorless, lacking an essential dramatic flair. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z His breathing was labored, she says, indicating he was already in respiratory distress. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Right now, at MoMA, that framework is a rather labored reconsideration of drawing across mediums. Dance Review: Drawings in a Museum, Using Bodies 2011-01-13T21:50:01Z Here he was taut and refined — simple in the best sense — while Mr. Hallberg was too labored, too self-aware. At the Joyce, a Feast of Dancers at a Sometimes Meager Table 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s a territory playwright Brooks clearly knows well and, despite some labored plotting, charts with squirm-inducing authenticity amid her comic hyperbole. 'Family Planning' at the Colony Theatre fails to dig deep 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “Carrion-Miles,” after craggy, labored movements, ends on a note of shaky consonance, with harmonies reminiscent of the Renaissance, creating a sense of incantatory wonder. Review: Sept. 11’s Monumental Despair, Evoked by Solo Piano 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z True, a certain amount of inanity is an accepted ingredient in farce, but you could handily herd the entire cast of “Aida,” elephants and all, through the holes in Mr. Ludwig’s labored plot. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z It’s a little labored—but the argument itself, its spirals of talk and Sisyphean seesaws of power, is meaningful in its dynamics. The Agreeable Staginess of “State of the Union” 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A spooky tale about plane crash survivors on a strange island increasingly became a labored allegory about free will and destiny, individualism and solidarity. Television: As ?Lost? Ends on ABC, Mythology Trumps Mystery 2010-05-20T19:10:00Z But Caillebotte had labored hard as its primary organizer, and he wanted his work to stand out. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The rest of the story is as predictable as it is labored. Books of The Times: ‘Bark,’ Lorrie Moore’s Meditations on Time 2014-02-19T20:59:55Z Those progressives were especially disenchanted by President Obama, who was a vocal opponent of the forever wars but once in office labored to put them on a more “sustainable” and “more lawful” footing. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The cumulative effect is one of labored intricacy, a Rube Goldberg machine of a novel that, for all its ambition, seems designed primarily to signify its own complexity. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Steinem herself has labored mightily to correct the notion that she was a lone revolutionary or that feminism was only for the privileged. In the Woman?s Movement, Who Will Replace Gloria Steinem? 2012-03-17T00:33:53Z What was initially a brash riff on pop culture becomes, in the story’s next generation, a fairly labored postmortem of the Clinton/Trump campaign. Review | In Nell Zink’s ‘Doxology,’ D.C. punk and modern politics collide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Hermes must have labored in choosing that forward-pointing word “consequence,” since it would have been harder to make the case that much of this is music for the ages. Books of The Times: ?Love Goes to Buildings on Fire,? by Will Hermes - Review 2011-12-05T23:38:47Z Pearl Jam’s 2013 album, “Lightning Bolt,” felt labored in its own way, with insistently lean production and songs that strained for significance. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Sadly, this week’s “Designated Survivor” proved unable to maintain this delicate act: It has a riveting A Story, but a labored B Story and an unimportant and mawkish C Story. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Although the film is labored, Mr. Lagerfeld chose an interesting period to explore, and Ms. Chaplin is a pleasure to watch in her pearls and befuddlement. Karl Lagerfeld Presides Over a Chanel Rodeo in Dallas 2013-12-14T00:35:04Z A self-taught woodworker, he labored off and on for months as he turned a plain-looking, if old, secretary into a detailed piece rich with the patina of history. ‘I Cheated,’ Says Woodworker Who Fooled the Antiques Experts 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z The text shows how a particular people, over centuries, labored to recall, commemorate and praise, and wrestled over meanings and observances. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z They take part in historical events, such as helping to fight the Peninsular War against France, and in a somewhat labored fantasy-romance story line, involving a malevolent fairy who takes a shine to Strange’s wife. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z His stage business can look labored, and his leering mien becomes grating. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage It was a restrained act, with his roomy baritone sounding labored against a drowsy band. At the Howard Theater, R&B singer Giveon stretches his vocal chops before a sellout crowd 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z “Everything moves a little slower and is more labored in a lot of ways,” Ms. France said. Trading the Ice for New York City Pavement 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In the context of these racking questions, many of the play’s comic devices, no doubt intended to balance the pathos, seem labored. Review: ‘Uncommon Sense’ Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Some of the movie’s themes feel labored, such as a drawn-out discourse comparing the rigidity of ballet to the freedom of modern choreography. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s a simultaneously labored and entrancing track, both a natural fit for Mr. Ross’s storytelling and a brazen borrowing of a fallen giant’s legacy. Music Review: Rick Ross Promotes ‘Mastermind’ Album at Best Buy Theater 2014-03-04T21:54:48Z It’s not labored or overwrought, somehow—it’s just proof of Stewart’s underheralded powers. How Kristen Stewart Shook Off Twilight to Become One of the Best Actresses of Her Generation 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z “But at the beginning it was very labored, quite tortured, if I’m honest,” he added. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z They labored up the slope of Haystack Mountain, clearing trees and blasting rocks. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z I feel pretty tolerant toward "Crazy, Stupid, Love." because it gets better and funnier after a labored and lumbering start, which is entirely the opposite of most Hollywood comedies. "Crazy, Stupid, Love.": A semi-coherent, semi-hilarious summer sex comedy 2011-07-29T18:01:00Z They were hardened men, survivors who labored in anonymous corners of a dark cave where few other humans could last a single shift. First books out on Chile's remarkable mine rescue 2011-03-28T19:45:14Z Despite all those touches, the pacing is slower, the jokes more labored, the personalities more wooden. ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Begins on Tuesday on CBS 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Rather than bother looking hard at the paintings on which he labored, best to give them a once-over and move on to the watershed that he heralded. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Sick with alcoholism and tuberculosis, he labored to make flimsy scripts better, a tired but relentless craftsman. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z He also labored on a novel, “Watt,” which he’d begun the previous year, in Paris, and which, he said, provided him “a means of staying sane.” The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z A lot of the bluer jokes are labored; all three shows are at their best when they dig deeper and come up with fresher, more organic comic material. Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z Freud “labored” with “patient and concentrated scrutiny” for weeks and months on his paintings, while his friend Bacon worked in the throes of “chance and high emotion — fury, frustration, despair.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z They labored to make a film that was dulcet yet funny, in the style of the kitchen-sink 1970s films that Mr. Payne loves. The Carpetbagger: Oscar Night Is Often Reached Via Unlikely Routes 2012-01-26T00:36:43Z A record this labored over deserves to be heard in full. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Structure and sound are pop songwriters’ obsessions, and Mr. Koenig and Mr. Batmanglij, who write nearly all of Vampire Weekend’s songs, labored extensively over both to make the new album. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z There was some actual wit there, rather than the labored overreaching that marked most of the premiere. 'Scream Queens' Series Premiere Recap: Funny or Scary? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z In a labored response, he noted something to the effect that the concert was to be broadcast in the “Live From Lincoln Center” series on PBS, a network closely identified with “Downton Abbey.” New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Much of this becomes forgivable with time, as the somewhat labored opening pivots to riveting final acts. Video Game Review: In the Video Game The Last of Us, Survival Favors the Man 2013-06-14T04:15:09Z She is “no Everywoman,” Heyrman instructs us, yet representative of white Northern ladies serving as teachers and missionaries, enjoying a softer life than the lower classes who labored on farms or in mills. The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z It was a critically acclaimed best-seller, one that Mr. Sheed had labored over for many years despite debilitating illnesses, dictating parts of it. Wilfrid Sheed, Writer of Gentle Wit, Dies at 80 2011-01-19T19:15:32Z It was Kirstein who labored to ensure the school and the company would outlive Balanchine. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Things labored over — like friends’ babies or poems — often elicit white lies, but not in “Something Unbelievable,” by Maria Kuznetsova. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z There’s also real estate and the mansion the two lavishly labored to trick out in Calabasas, California, along with their two Wyoming ranches. Kim and Kanye: Tales of an uber celeb marriage gone wrong 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z He labored every morning for as long as he could, writing longhand. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z One lame and labored running gag involves Wyatt’s repeated “heart on” comments in reference to a heart pin on his nurse’s smock. Television Review: CBS’s ‘Partners’ From David Kohan and Max Mutchnick 2012-09-23T21:48:54Z Then he labored over the writing, planning and financing of “Downsizing,” an ambitious overpopulation allegory with elements of science fiction. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z The introduction of the new stars, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, was labored, long and almost painfully lighthearted, like a divorced husband awkwardly presenting the new wife to his grown but unforgiving children. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Life After Simon for 'Idol' 2011-01-20T12:26:17Z While touching on serious and timely issues, including anti-Semitism, women’s rights and the perpetual tug-of-war between art and commerce, the play’s central showdown often feels labored, expository and talky. If you’re in the mood for comedy, try these productions 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Like an actor who finds himself typecast in certain roles, Dobkin labored to land different directing assignments. 'Judge' a departure for David Dobkin, Robert Downey Jr. 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Those with an allergy to labored satire may want to seek other fare. Review: In ‘Gluten!’ the Fashion Is in the Hazmat Suits 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Walking felt labored and the world took on an acute sharpness, as if rocks and boulders and the air itself had grown an edge. Where Will Science Take Us? To the Stars 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Some shows seemed perfect on paper — what could be wrong with the mix of “Mozartiana,” “Rubies” and “La Valse”? — but in the end, felt labored. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But new multimedia exhibits and a mobile phone app will help trace the lives of the people who labored there. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Bishop labored for 16 years in the mines, two years picking on his knees in holes 28 inches high. Coal no longer fuels America. But the legacy — and the myth — remain. 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z "The notes were pretty much all there," said the review, but Hancock "labored through some of the flashier passages." Herbie Hancock will 'swing' Gershwin with SSO 2011-11-18T00:44:04Z Such anxiety emerges as one of the strengths of House’s raw and tender prose — “Mother Noise” feels lovingly labored over, expertly whittled and chiseled into its current frank form. Three Memoirs That Re-examine Challenges in Life and Identity 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Siegel and Shuster labored on their creation for years in the throttling grip of the Great Depression before finally selling Superman to a publisher. Superman's 75th puts spotlight on Cleveland roots 2013-04-17T16:46:09Z “Turn Blue” offers proof that the band has acclimated to its stature: It’s surer and more satisfying than either of those previous albums, and seems less labored. New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z Everyone was taken in, while Mrs. Keane labored in her studio up to 16 hours a day. Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z This labored illustration of history, more imaginary than real despite documentary pretensions, is not exactly dreamlike. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z His steps were more labored and shorter than I remembered. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z All of which may help to explain the otherwise baffling existence of “Pan,” a hectic and labored attempt to supply the boy who never grew up with an origin story. Review: ‘Pan’ Proposes Peter and Captain Hook’s Origin Stories 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z According to the Guardian, Hughes labored over three drafts of the poem, with many lines barely decipherable through reworking. A Newly Discovered Ted Hughes Poem 2010-10-06T22:11:00Z On a less positive note, the production suffers from labored choreography and uneven costuming. Review | Olney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ succeeds with a Belle who brings complexity to the role 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z This nine-episode series is maddeningly and needlessly opaque, and so deferential to the rites and rituals of the track that the storytelling is labored and even joyless. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z Both actors are about 30 years too old for their roles, and the strain of pantomiming cute and kooky is evident in their leaden smiles, labored physicality and expressed lack of feeling. 'Mood Indigo,' Starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Once his first sentence described Prebble's play as "a flashy but labored economics lesson", you could imagine potential theatregoers deciding to save their dollars and settle for a night at the movies. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z Generations of scribes labored in the abbey’s library to copy texts and preserve artifacts that dated to antiquity. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Veronica Tjioe’s “Dead Dog’s Bone” anatomizes a splintered family with such labored whimsy that their dying dog is a character. Review | In the comic ‘Resolving Hedda,’ the protagonist tries to actually live through the end of the play 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Where car mechanics once labored, a half-dozen designers in their 20s now work behind enormous computer screens. Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall Is Technodreaming 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But it remains labored, stymied by stuffy dialogue and by Mr. Pearl’s signature insistence on too many plot threads. Books of The Times: ?The Technologists,? by Matthew Pearl, Is Set in 1868 2012-02-23T00:25:22Z But last year, when I saw “Girl” on its opening night in London, with a British ensemble straining for Americanness, the script often felt labored and imitative. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z In so many of these places, they're praising the infrastructures, but they're failing to honor and commemorate the people who worked in them, who labored and died there. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z As he slept, his breath was labored and deep. My father loved epic solo road trips. But for his final journey, we all came along 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z They populated the city with thousands of characters, folded in San Francisco’s iconography, and labored to make the film seem more like live-action movie, with realistic lighting and camera work. How to Build a (Softhearted) Robot 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In labored pages, thick with cryptic mathematical symbols and ornamented with rough, quizzical sketches of the nervous system’s branchings, Freud described the psyche as an energetic “apparatus.” Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z But, as he labored over the story, a brilliant idea popped into his head, a hundred times better than the previous one, about how to solve the problems of the Middle East. An Exchange Between Etgar Keret and Sayed Kashua 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z For weeks after they recorded, Ira went through and, where possible, digitally removed David’s labored breaths and replaced them with pauses. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z At one time, 125 people lived, labored, and even went to school here. Gateway to Fall 2012-10-18T14:20:09.483Z His long-term plan, though, is to return to the sea, where he has labored since he was 12, starting his nautical career as a helper on Acapulco’s signature glass-bottom boats. No fun in Acapulco: Smashed buildings, overturned boats and broken lives in wake of Hurricane Otis 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Biologists have long labored at understanding how our body develops. Small Collections of Cells Determine How a Body Takes Its Shape 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z “He’s probably labored over that decision for the last couple of years now — come back, not come back, come home, not play at all,” Heaney said. Shaikin: Deep in the heart of Texas? Clayton Kershaw has big call to make 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z As a teen, she once labored for a week in the kitchen of a Tijuana poor house. Imprisoned as teens, they lost hope after 17 years. Then an unlikely duo took up their case 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Fried, who went on the injured list late in the season with a recurring blister issue, labored through four innings. Braves rally for 5-4 win over Phillies on d’Arnaud, Riley homers and game-ending double play 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Arizona labored to 57 points and a last-place finish in Tourigny’s first season. Andre Tourigny is leading the Coyotes into Phase 2 of their rebuilding project 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Wheeler threw only 46 pitches through four innings in this one — while Marlins starter Jesús Luzardo labored through 90 over the same span. Zack Wheeler strikes out 8, NL champion Phillies beat Marlins 4-1 in Wild Card Series opener 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Wheeler threw only 46 pitches through four innings in this one - while Marlins starter Jesús Luzardo labored through 90 over the same span. Zack Wheeler strikes out 8, NL champion Phillies beat Marlins 4-1 in Wild Card Series opener 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z People infected with H5N1 virus can develop acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, manifesting in short and labored breathing. To prepare for next pandemic, researchers tackle bird flu 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Hours before devastating fires scorched the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Kyle Ellison labored to save his rental house in Kula, a rural mountain town 24 miles away, from a different blaze. When Kula needed water to stop wildfire, it got a trickle. Many other US cities are also vulnerable 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Even committee Democrats criticized the labored process and politicking that led up to Mr. Biden’s decision. Lawmakers hit Biden over pick of Colorado over Alabama for Space Command headquarters 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z They labored to pay rent to the illegal building’s slum landlords. Portraits of Fire Victims: Two Toddlers Named ‘Memory,’ and a Teacher About to Wed 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z At drug companies, scientists labored to overcome the peptide’s short life span before it’s degraded by the body, eventually finding mimics that were more practical as drugs. Her work paved the way for blockbuster obesity drugs. Now, she’s fighting for recognition 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open. 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z The night after Brynn was born, her mother Lindsay noticed her skin was gray, her breathing labored. A broad genetic test saved one newborn’s life. Research suggests it could help millions of others 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Production of sneakers for fashionable Parisians has restored hope for a community of rubber tappers who labored on the verge of obsolescence with the advent of synthetic rubber. Support grows for sustainable development, a ‘bioeconomy,’ in the Amazon 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z For more than six months, he labored in secret after his day job as a hairdresser. Recreating a Bygone China, One Miniature Home at a Time 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z From the Middle East to the American Southwest, delivery drivers, airport workers and construction crews labored under blistering skies. Heat Waves Grip 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Gilbert labored hard to get through three innings on 71 pitches, throwing 26 in the first. Mariners get clutch 2-out hits from Kelenic and Suarez in a 7-6 win over the Twins 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Some 400 firefighters assisted by nine water-dumping aircraft labored to extinguish a wildfire that burned for a fourth consecutive day on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands. Second heat wave in as many weeks grips Mediterranean while fires hit Spain, Switzerland and Greece 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z On a recent morning, as a pale sun labored to penetrate the mist, a veterinarian checked to see which of the cows were pregnant. Uruguay Saw Opportunity in China. It Got Schooled in the Hazards of Trade. 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z When she started experiencing asthmatic retractions — a type of severely labored breathing that caused her chest to cave inward — Morales rushed her to the hospital. Scientists warned of a Salton Sea disaster. No one listened 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Keller labored through the first two innings, using 57 pitches to strand two runners in each. Keller cruises through 6, the Pirates score 5 times in the 7th to beat the Padres 7-1 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z For some of those looking on from a nearby boat, the driving in of the first piling marked a milestone they had labored to reach for two decades. A Giant Wind Farm Is Taking Root Off Massachusetts 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Hackett labored near where the marker is displayed on the square. Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was later extradited 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Twins starter Sonny Gray labored through four innings, including a 35-pitch fourth that spelled the end of his night. Tigers beat Twins 8-4 for second victory in 13 games 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Dockworkers at 29 Pacific Coast ports stretching from California to Washington state, who had labored without a contract since July 1, had been seeking a bigger share of pandemic cargo surge profits and retroactive pay. U.S. West Coast port customers 'relieved' by tentative labor deal 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z And keep an ear out for noisy, labored breathing, especially in certain breeds like pugs, which are prone to breathing difficulties. How to Keep Pets Safe From Wildfire Smoke 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z By the time fire personnel arrived, Anderson was unconscious and his breathing was labored. Enlarged heart, cocaine use deemed cause of death of teacher tased by LAPD 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Indian news reports described harrowing scenes as teams of rescue workers with dogs and cutting equipment labored frantically to free survivors and the injured who were trapped in the train wreckage. Up to 50 Feared Dead in Train Crash in India 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The Central Valley fields, where Valdez labored as a boy, the second of 10 children in an itinerant farmworker family, are ablaze with colors that Mondrian would’ve coveted. By exploring LA's racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z For weeks negotiators labored late into the night to strike the deal with the White House, and for days McCarthy has worked to build support among skeptics. After sailing though House on bipartisan vote, Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal now goes to Senate 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z He also has difficulty holding up his head without a brace, and his walking has become more labored. Mariners putting on ALS Awareness Night before MLB’s Lou Gehrig’s Day 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z |
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