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The majority of the old stuck to toilsome hand-scrubbing.
FORBES: The Rising Silver Tide: Aging as Counter Current to Innovation
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The prevailing style is realist, but it is regularly beset by mixed, toilsome aims: Wall has harbored enough motives to impel several artists, and they have tended to get in the way of one another.
NEWYORKER: Flashes of Light
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First is the toilsome restoration of a flowery pastiche of Gothic and Renaissance motifs that made up the original decorations of the building, as it was designed by the architect Pierre Cuypers, in 1876, and finished nine years later.
NEWYORKER: New Amsterdam