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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a difficult idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or thoughts that are challenging to understand or articulate.
Example: "The professor presented a difficult idea that left many students pondering its implications long after the lecture ended."
Alternatives: "a challenging concept" or "a complex notion".
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It's a difficult idea.
It's a difficult idea, but doable.
It's a difficult idea to pin down.
But it seems a difficult idea to repeat.
It was a difficult idea to test, because he could not actually follow the birds in flight.
And so, certainly, in the nineteen-fifties, it would have been a difficult idea to express in print.
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The New York City Partnership also proposes raising tolls on motorists coming into Manhattan, a politically difficult idea that could win widespread support only if voters see the money being put to good use.
Perhaps he kept the two lives somehow separate, a much more difficult idea to accept when thinking about the work of socially engaged artists.
The faux-tentative "may" in that sentence, as though hesitantly proffering a complex and difficult idea when what is being said is, in fact, shatteringly banal, is also characteristic.
On cap and trade, the House chairmen took a relatively clean though politically difficult idea — auctioning off pollution permits — and they transformed it into a morass of corporate giveaways that make the stimulus bill look parsimonious.
That's a difficult, complex idea, and there's a lot in this story about victimization and agency that Mr. Epstein and Mr. Friedman never satisfactorily address.
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