laboriousness

By making me struggle to read the words he has so laboriously applied, Ligon makes laboriousness and struggle part of the work’s meaning.

Thus, he uncorks sentences like this: "we is all of us taking a deserved rest, for we expended a prodigious, a fantastic, a burdensomely amount of laboriousness and energy."

“Carnet de Voyage,” though, was made at such incredible speed — it was already at the publisher while he was still touring — that it corrects for some of that laboriousness.

Nor does Ms. Fornés’s “Drowning,” a gentle paean to the laboriousness and loneliness of living small.

The New York Times tried re-creating her stuffing after the book published in 2010.“The most unnerving thing about the recipe is its laboriousness,” reads the article.