| We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter. |
| The European quickset hedges of hawthorn and willow never became popular on the Island, perhaps because maintaining them is quite laborious. |
| His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior. |
| Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading. |
| To get a true look at your portfolio, you're left with laborious pencilwork or keyboarding to merge these data with other holdings. |
| But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming. |
