Patients who have cleft lip or palate face significant lifelong communicative and aesthetic challenges and difficulties with deglutition.
Our results suggest that bvFTD patients can give an aesthetic judgment, but present abstraction difficulties, as spectators, resulting from impairments in the cognitive processes involved.
Like Mr. Godard, Mr. Portabella clings to aesthetic principles — a commitment to difficulty, to seriousness, to scenes involving fine-boned women with grave expressions and without clothes — that can seem both fragile and complacent.
This can lead to aesthetic or functional problems and consequently, difficulties in patient-doctor communication.
In any single theatrical production, one or another type of activity may so prevail that there is little difficulty in determining the aesthetic nature of the final work.
And some games are so hard that they turn difficulty into a nearly aesthetic experience: The Impossible Game, by the developer FlukeDude, is so impossible that playing it becomes absurdly, even heroically pointless.
It goes further: the hallmark of our contemporary culture is an active resistance to difficulty in all its aesthetic manifestations, accompanied by a sense of grievance that conflates it with political elitism.
However, every once in a while a show, artist or gallerist comes along that acknowledges the difficulty of portraying this aesthetic in a traditional art setting and rises to the challenge.
Once regarded by academic critics as an awkwardly constructed work of more historical than literary importance, the novel has come to be recognized as a modernist masterpiece whose difficulties are part of its aesthetic.
It might be associated with pain, occlusal disorders, difficulties in speech and swallowing, aesthetic alterations, and psychosocial disturbances.
