Reading knowledge means the ability to make a genuine scholarly use of the language: that is, to read prose of ordinary difficulty.
The late Canadian novelist specialised in lonely misfits and the ordinary difficulties of human relationships.
Unfortunately, such regions are small, and one also has to deal with the ordinary difficulties of non-convex optimization.
Although such uncertainties have much to do with poor prospects for improvement in home countries, they are also affected by the "ordinary" difficulties of low-skilled immigrant life at the margins of the receiving society, even when they are employed in domestic work.
The play is about ordinary people in an ordinary suburb, their difficulty in coping with ordinary life and how easily such lives can become rancid and desperate.
Persons with dementia might not only have difficulty handling an ordinary telephone; they might also have difficulty visualising the person they wish to talk to when she or he is not present as well as to hear, interpret, and understand what is said in the conversation [ 12, 13].
American officials said there were no markings on the shell to indicate that it was anything other than an ordinary round, pointing up the difficulty American inspectors have had in trying to find illicit weapons.
There is a foul brilliance in how Ferrante sticks with the logic of Olga's illogic, so that an ordinary enough complaint about the difficulty of raising children becomes an outsized revulsion, and the stink of motherhood leads inexorably to the incestuous end of all marital eros.
According to Barden, the average person has difficulty translating an ordinary drawing to the real world.
I'm sure Shakespeare wasn't as handsome as Joseph Fiennes, but Shakespeare in Love was great because it gave us the idea of this man having an ordinary life, having ordinary problems and difficulties.
Persons with dementia might have considerable difficulties in using an ordinary telephone.
