belabored

A woman whose mother was a Christian Scientist recalls the belabored feeding her family undertook to maintain their health: fasts, cleanses, fermentation and raw food, hydrogen peroxide from the bottle, apple-cider vinegar, barley grass.

It’s Not Just White Girls 2008

I see it as a good example of meaningless, puffed-up verbiage intended to convey the impression of eloquence or significance; but perhaps it is also an example of a kind of belabored delicacy: it's as if the author is saying "there is a group which certain people of interest belong to, but I will preserve them by claiming an indeterminate quantity for censure".

languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING. 2004

I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

(Not necessarily belabored or overly "academic" exegesis but some "close reading" with a lighter touch.)

The Biographical Fallacy 2009

I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

The GOP belabored the racist topic for three days and it left them looking like a big dirty sac

Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

Walking with Neglect is so belabored and choppy, requiring miles of effort to drag myself a few miserable feet.

Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

The English learned from the French, however, building square stockades with corner bastions and crude barracks and storehouses, the men sleeping in pairs or trios head-to-foot, belabored by bedbugs, fleas, flies, ticks, and lice.2

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

I responded to your opening post, which belabored a trivial point.

A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism 2010