The first pages, in which he describes a difficult calving in graphic detail, complete with a chorus of locals all sitting around offering their opinions but doing nothing to help, is one of the funniest passages in English literature, as good as anything in Waugh or Wodehouse.
But the publicity generated by "12 Years a Slave's" Oscar nominations, which trail only "Gravity" for the most this year, has helped bring people into theaters, a difficult task given how graphic the film is.
The synthesis of realistic complex body movements in real-time is a difficult problem in computer graphics and in robotics.
While it is conceivable to define a set of variables that characterize the key attributes of many alphanumeric display formats, such a task seems difficult for graphic displays because of their much greater complexity.
Finally there is the combination of various graphic methods (etching and drypoint) in a single print, a difficult though not uncommon practice suggesting that it is inappropriate to think of the graphic arts as separate processes.
Its graphic description of an abortion, and its horrific, sadomasochistic resolution, made it a difficult read.
A world away from the hard edge of the capital - and it would be difficult to find a more graphic illustration of the extremes on offer - is the resort at Anjajavy.
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The game also features a more difficult Challenge Mode, better-than-average graphics, and a unique style of gameplay.
The debate took place on a day of international bloodshed -- with bombings in Baghdad and the Gaza Strip, a military incursion into Samarra in the Sunni triangle in Iraq -- that, along with the intense security in Coral Gables, offered a graphic reminder of the difficult future faced by the man who wins the election.
