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The phrase "are difficult to watch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something, such as a film or performance, that is hard to view due to its content or presentation.
Example: "The documentary on climate change is powerful, but some parts are difficult to watch because of the harsh realities it presents."
Alternatives: "are hard to view" or "are challenging to see".
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Both sports are difficult to watch.
For that reason, the sex scenes are difficult to watch.
"There are things that happen in this film that are difficult to watch," Mr. Considine said during an interview in a Midtown Manhattan bar while in town recently for the New Directors/New Films.
The sequences depicting a young Dongo and his classmates being terrorized by their coach, a brute who wields a fencing foil as if it's a riding crop and berates his charges as "whores," are difficult to watch.
These "shocking exposés", brought to the newspapers by the animal rights group BUAV, include distressing images, links to videos that are difficult to watch, and quote allegedly secretly recorded researchers saying terrible things about the animals in their care.
Some scenes are difficult to watch — children playing among used syringes; an anesthesia-free dental visit — yet the film never loses its admiration for human resilience and childish imagination.
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The clips were difficult to watch.
"It is difficult to watch this procedure.
At times, it is difficult to watch.
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