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Happily, however, labored metaphors like this are few, and the politics serve more as a backdrop than as a message.
The rack-and-pinion railway that once labored up the ferociously steep hill closed in the 1930s, but the railway station is still here, its arches visible over the perfectly clipped public gardens Jardim do Monte (established 1894).
The artists who populated the auterist canon--Howard Hawks and John Ford, pre-eminently--had labored within the constraints of the studio system.
His only interest in life was his farm, and he labored long and hard among the stones and the whins to wrest a living of sorts from the reluctant soil.
The comic books, Faison says, "drip with so much political venom that they capture the labored nature of the campaign [against Hongzhi] in a way that verges on parody."