Can educators find ways to encourage students to engage in the kind of effortful study that will improve their reading and math skills?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Effortful study"] Reference

Just singing became more uncomfortable and effortful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

It was fun, though not as effortful as I expected it to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [and the winnahs are:] Reference

As you know for humans, it's very effortful to lose weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference

As you know, For humans it's very effortful to lose weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2006] Reference

Immersion works provided it is combined with effortful study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

Elizabeth said with effortful calm, 'Ty, you aren't fit to drive.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forfeit]

In the beginning of a practice, everything is new and can feel effortful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Susan Corso: The Traveling Sanctuary: A Spiritual Approach to Unplugging and Recharging] Reference

Or someone who has self-discipline that is inspired rather than effortful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: How to Be Determined and Not Exhausted] Reference

She gave him an effortful smile and followed Shalkan up the steep incline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

For instance, effortful processes can be influenced by attentional resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Their walking looked effortful, like old men harnessed to loads with tumplines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

I was really struck by the students' clear engagement in a very effortful process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Student Voices Episode 4: Justice, Lawrence, and Richard] Reference

Both take this as evidence that calculating an implicature is an effortful process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

This was the Vietnam generation leaving the room after effortful, successful careers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth Has Outlived Its Usefulness] Reference

Rick describes "engagement" explicitly NOT as entertainment but as very effortful process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Student Voices Episode 4: Justice, Lawrence, and Richard] Reference

The second sentence flows smoothly but contains the wonderfully effortful word strainedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Close Read] Reference

Eric glanced at Lydia, who favored him with an effortful smile before turning blindly away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond World's End]

There was so much I wanted to say, but it was too effortful to speak over the din of the band.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vroom at the Top] Reference

Some situations are more likely to lead to immersion combined with effortful study than others!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

Because automatic and effortful processes differ in type, they are affected by different things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Thus, performing more than one task at a time may hurt performance utilizing effortful processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

"The less effortful it is to eat, the easier it was to forget how much they ate," the study found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives] Reference

MP: It is clear that executive attention and effortful control are critical for success in school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: Can Games, Meditation and Parenting Help Improve Attention?] Reference

I early recognized that she would not pay the price of radical cure -- the price of effortful living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Afterwards, the kids talk about how this second game - the more effortful game - is the more fun game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Salmansohn: The Power To Change Our World's Storylines: Donna Karan's Urban Zen] Reference

This, according to Logan, is what constitutes the path of learning from the effortful to the automatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

As Logan's theory states, effortful processes are generally less officient than learned automatic ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Second, they need not occur for long, or be particularly effortful, but they must be genuinely selfless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marnia Robinson: Sure Ways To Stay In Love] Reference

Endless pages of people I had entered into the system - it was very tedious, the most effortful part of the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Sprung: Retired Social Worker Connects for Barack on the Phone] Reference

Just putting in more hours immersion is not the same as effortful study with clear goals to improve ones understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

This transition in skill acquisition also illustrates another interesting difference between effortful and automatic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

So, situatedness means relevance, which is likely to increase motivation, which is like to lead to immersion and effortful study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

I didn't really like the Liu at first; rather too effortful of voice, and with a lot of vibrato in between the soaring high notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse, or, Voglio Turandot!] Reference

Only when a topic is important to us and actually requires effortful thought do we engage our brains and make them do some real work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social definitions of racism] Reference

The ostensibly now-sober actress lifted a glass containing a clear liquid, on the rocks, to her lips and took a long but effortful draught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transom] Reference

I don't mean the effortful badinage of theatrical Italians in upscale trattorias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight]

This doesn't seem enough to justify such an effortful work or the maintenance costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

And he has also created a of or relating to Sisyphus both extremely effortful and futile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference