Consider a variety of cons, like time commitments, difficulty, and other aspects of the choice.
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.
Swayed by his young daughter, Colin decides not to disturb his new dependent (who, after all, is sitting on an egg) -- a commitment that causes difficulties for the main character of "The Singing Hat," and also lets the Australian author and illustrator Tohby Riddle introduce a fine grown-up word, "conundrum," into a children's text.
"The Turin Horse," a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Mr. Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity.
48% of people said they could keep up with all their bills and commitments without any difficulties.
It calls for concerted action and continued commitments amid economic difficulties that affect all countries.
This Fourth Stocktaking Report highlights progress made and challenges that remain in scaling up services for women, children and young people affected by the epidemic, and it calls for concerted action and continued commitments amid economic difficulties that affect all countries.
Whitelaw embraced the technical difficulties with commitment and verve, and after Play she became Beckett's favourite actress.
Publication was timed to coincide with Mailer's 80th birthday last month, and the book is presented as his offering to "young novelists who wish to improve their skills and their commitment to the subtle difficulties and uncharted mysteries of serious novel writing".
Although such passages are less boastful than self-mocking, Mr. Swofford's litany of sexual conquests make the same obvious point over and over again: that he had difficulties with commitment and fidelity, a problem that he apparently shared with his father, John Howard Swofford, who, the author says, was always trying to regale him with stories about his womanizing.
