Obama seems to have an instinct for a fundamental rule of political theater: the inverse relationship between the effortfulness of stagecraft and the perception of substantive policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Now, by effortfulness I do not mean "labored breath" or any "shortness of breath.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

To catch this emergence of tension, try to start paying attention to your breathing several times trying to tune in to this transition from effortlessness to effortfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Overall, these data suggest that the perceived effortfulness of visually presented actions affects the autonomic response by increasing the heart and respiratory rates as a function of the perceived muscular effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In order to locate the possible neural source of the motor content and effortfulness effect for implied motion perception, two separate swLORETA source reconstructions were performed on the difference waves obtained by subtracting the ERPs to static from those elicited by dynamic pictures in two adjacent time windows, 380-430 and 430-480 ms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

2 Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council (CNR), Milano-Segrate, Italy Physiological studies of perfectly still observers have shown interesting correlations between increasing effortfulness of observed actions and increases in heart and respiration rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference