‘The specialized work seems interesting to outsiders but is actually toilsome, hard and even dangerous.’
‘The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job.’
‘It preferred these short-cut means to the more toilsome efforts of building up a base through good governance, social reforms and ideological education of the cadres.’
‘Marx, though critical of industrial capitalism, also maintained a belief that machines would eventually liberate man from the toilsome qualities of human labor.’
‘His chief work was done in his study, where he was constantly to be found in an arm-chair with his writing board resting across his arms, engrossed in toilsome arithmetical or analytic processes.’