effortful

It is an effortfully attractive place with well-kept painted brick homes and clipped lawns.

She has worked, effortfully, to capture the voice and the pose, even if the film fails her in terms of rapture.

In this way, through sustained and effortful looking, we are finally rewarded with intimate visions of metallic door plates and keys, adorned with colorful ribbons and arrayed against a backdrop of gilded emergency blankets.

There’s immense discipline and effort behind the songs on “Radical Optimism,” and Lipa flaunts her work in the studio and in her effortful onstage dance routines.

And pulses can be perceived as inconvenient, effortful or difficult to cook.