Sentence examples for a difficult affair from inspiring English sources

It's a bit of a jolt to read in this new selection from Spender's journals (5 August 1980) that Tony Hyndman, with whom he had a difficult affair, "was the visible manifestation of something which was the deepest thing in my nature – my loyalty to the 'queer' world, the gay".

But the SMS situation in Europe makes international expansion a difficult affair.

Creatures that live in the depths of the oceans are often extremely fragile, making their collection a difficult affair.

Getting a permit to raft the Grand Canyon is a notoriously difficult affair involving weighted lotteries, years of waiting and meticulously scheduled trips.

Making cookies might seem like a trivial task for some, but for today's robot, it is a pretty difficult affair.

FOR the oil industry, with its sprawling and hazardous facilities, keeping on top of corrosion is a particularly difficult affair.

For the oil industry, with its sprawling and hazardous facilities, keeping on top of the rot is a particularly difficult affair.

The two men went out for dinner to discuss the project: a stiff, difficult affair, which turned round on the ride home in Gosling's car.

Getting into university is an increasingly difficult affair, which explains why we simultaneously celebrate and lament the excellent results produced by a new cohort of students each year, more often than not outperforming their predecessors.

A further complication arose when Bainbridge began a long and difficult affair with Colin.

The Prime Minister's encounter with Jeremy Paxman at the beginning of the programme had been a much more difficult affair.