Sentence examples for been difficult to place from inspiring English sources

Kipling, the "bard of empire", has always been difficult to place in the cultural pantheon.

It's true, Cage has always been difficult to place, moving between genres, styles and accents more than most actors in his league.

Until recently, the aye-aye has been difficult to place within Strepsirrhini.

No one else on Bette was remotely interesting, and Midler's larger-than-life persona has always been difficult to place in a scripted box.

R. felis has been difficult to place phylogenetically because it displays some genotypic and phenotypic attributes of both SFG and TG rickettsiae, e.g., association with insect, hemolytic activity, actin-based motility, transovarial maintenance in the vector hosts, and serological cross-reactivity.

This result is not completely unexpected, as this species has previously been difficult to place phylogenetically [ 29, 30].

As a collection, "Midnight Magic" is difficult to place.

On the political spectrum of Chinese filmmakers, Jia is difficult to place.

"We've discovered that a hundred million dollars might be difficult to place," Omidyar told me.

He spoke in clipped tones that were difficult to place geographically and socially.

When the noise from the gears below stops, another rumbling begins that is difficult to place.