Sentences with phrase «most strenuous effort»
His extraordinary family, rather than being a loving haven within which he could grow to maturity, had somehow come to resemble a kind of debtor's prison from which he could escape only by the most strenuous effort.
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«58 Literary critic Walter Ong makes a similar complaint: «It is no accident that the most strenuous corporate technological effort which man has ever made coincides in fact with the activity which earlier man often jokingly imagined to be the most playful... shooting the moon.
But we feel from the outset that the human characters are caught like strong swimmers in an undertow that is much stronger than their most strenuous strivings, an undertow that will take them where it will, despite their efforts.