She formed a self-consciously "difficult" band with other conservatory alums, then appeared with a succession of riotous punk groups, the most famous of which was Kukl.
Yet it takes its influences from the worlds of jazz and nineteenth-century composers, making it far less self-consciously "difficult" than modern music such as that of James Dillon, a Scottish composer, or the late John Cage.
If he had failed to ask the self-consciously "difficult questions" in the Bloomberg speech, Britain might have drifted toward the EU exit, and observing the rise of the far right in Europe, Farage-ism could have turned into an unstoppable force.
It was Thomas's death, seen as the inevitable corollary to the way he conducted his life, that saw this self-consciously difficult poet not only bracketed with other prematurely extinguished poetic meteors like Shelley and Rimbaud, but also claimed by the emergent pop culture.
It's as if we as a society assume that for someone to suffer with a mental health issue, he or she woke up and decided to consciously make life difficult for him or herself.
But what is "War and Peace" if not a self-consciously great and difficult work?
"It can be surprisingly difficult to consciously see such changes," Dr. Koch said, though evidence suggests that neurons may be registering them.
Much of the mental model is tacit knowledge that is difficult to consciously articulate.
It is difficult to consciously oppress people we do not first detest.
Yet, might it be possible that some men, most of them good people in a difficult world, consciously or unconsciously saw in him a way to register their anger at the damage to their prospects and their sense of self?
This is because interventions that reduce body fat stores without a corresponding decrease in the defended level of fat mass elicit compensatory responses that promote the recovery of lost fat and are difficult to consciously override.
