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the book's abstruse subject matter and dense prose make for effortful reading
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But that shouldn’t look too effortful, or overly dependent on novelty or shallow surrealism.
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Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
Sennecke’s effortful shift ultimately sent the Capitals into the Ducks’ end, where Husso stymied Connor McMichael on a breakaway.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
That’s why the red-hot tension of her acting doesn’t seem effortful and comes off as natural and candid; the tension is her very own.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2025
The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
Sennecke’s effortful shift ultimately sent the Capitals into the Ducks’ end, where Husso stymied Connor McMichael on a breakaway.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
That’s why the red-hot tension of her acting doesn’t seem effortful and comes off as natural and candid; the tension is her very own.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2025
The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for effortful
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“Effortful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effortful. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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