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This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat "unreal" to even think of himself as a writer.
Subjects were asked to refrain from any activity more strenuous than walking for 3 days before the muscle biopsy.
A strenuous climb up the sheer face of the Western Hills via tunnels and stair treads carved from stone ultimately leads to Dragon’s Gate (Longmen).
Later in the book, Hersh describes Jackie Kennedy's strenuous efforts to avoid catching JFK in action.
And Brodkey's strenuous feats of observation and language, in the teeth of death, more than repay the effort: