They see forces outside themselves as the reason that they don't have time to exercise, can't leave work at a reasonable time, or just generally struggle to get everything done.
In a work that constantly echoes, but never imitates, novels by Updike, Ford and, yes, Fitzgerald, Joseph O'Neill has created in Hans van den Broek an unlikely hero for our uncertain times - a perfectly reasonable man struggling to find his way back home to himself.
Would we struggle to find a reasonable doubt about whether the shooter acted in self-defense?
I found it difficult enough with female-sized digits; fatter-fingered folk will struggle to achieve a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Sharma said that "climate change has become a real threat" and that to survive in the global market, India must "offer a quality product at a reasonable price". Yet Indian farmers already struggle with abysmally low incomes.
The entire time I have been here it has been a struggle to find a reasonable studio and live space.
The Open Money team, with a diverse set of leadership backgrounds within the consumer software space, struggled to find a reasonable path to include cryptocurrencies into their broadly used apps.
"Residents in these streets were trapped between different parking zones and were really struggling to park within a reasonable distance from their homes," he said.
"When we achieve fair pensions and fair salaries and a reasonable measure of job security, the workers will conclude, as in past struggles, that these struggles, while unwelcome, are necessary".
"More and more of us are struggling with debt we cannot pay within a reasonable amount of time," Kassa said.
But the firm is likely to struggle to bring the number down to any semblance of a reasonable level anytime soon.
