What is "gruelling"

Usage examples of "gruelling".

Mack had spent most of the evening at the hospital, not exclusively to pay a sick call, but to confer with the doctors to ascertain whether Hancock would be in a condition improved enough to enable a deposition to be taken or, provided Mack could persuade the court to come up to the hospital with the jury, whether Hancock would be physically able to subject himself to what might be a gruelling examination and cross-examination.

Looking up at Janice, and in the half-light, his face seemed worn, scarred by the marks of a long and gruelling battle, yet at peace.

Instead he pulls a riksha, a two-wheeled cart, even though he takes in less money at this gruelling work than O-lan and the children with their begging.

He looked extremely tired, and his stutter was the worst I had heard it since his gruelling by Fats Brown during the Sigueiras case.

However, so gruelling was the training that Rebus suffered a nervous breakdown during the last section of the course and had to be invalided out of the army.

This so-called display would mean a gruelling session of pain and humiliation in front of an amused audience.

They had survived the most gruelling tests that Planetfest could provide.

Letters and months passed, and eventually, after a series of supposedly gruelling examinations which Aleksandr went through without so much as a qualm, he was admitted to a Lycee in Moscow at the hitherto unheard-of age of twelve years and ten months.

At that time there were six shifts - manning the radar machinery was tiring for the plotters working in darkness and gruelling for the men exposed to the sea breeze - and so Reinecke found himself on parade six hours out of the twenty-four.

The trek from the snow plains of Liska to the summit of the Ice Crystal Pyramids of Sastantua is long and gruelling, even with jet skis and a team of Syneca Snowhounds, but the view from the top, a view which takes in the Stin Glacier Fields, the shimmering Prism Mountains and the far ethereal dancing icelights, is one which first freezes the mind and then slowly releases it to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty, and Trillian, for one, felt that she could do with a bit of having her mind slowly released to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty.

The trek from the snow plains of Liska to the summit of the Ice Crystal Pyramids of Sastantua is long and gruelling, even with jet skis and a team of Syneca Snowhounds, but the view from the top, a view which takes in the Stin Glacier Fields, the shimmeri ng Prism Mountains and the far ethereal dancing icelights, is one which first freezes the mind and then slowly releases it to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty, and Trillian, for one, felt that she could do with a bit of having her mind slowly released to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty.

A `warmup' run of about four kilometres in our boots, with badly blistered and cut feet from the previous marches, half-killed us and and then a gruelling routine of press-ups and sit-ups finished us off.

This initial run should shake out the glitches that had escaped the gruelling routines to which she subjected each part of a new ship.