Asked why superheroes fascinate audiences on such a grand scale, Cox said: "I think it taps into the child in all of us: we love the idea of being able to battle and defeat our difficulties, whether the difficulty is a Green Goblin … or simply a character flaw".
For Picture Post, he invoked the socialist Poum militia in Spain (Orwell's own corps) as a model for the Home Guard: "Superficially alike in mixture of uniforms… in shortage of weapons and ammunition, in hasty and incomplete organisation… they seemed to me more fundamentally alike in their serious eagerness to learn, their resolve to meet and defeat all difficulties".
I don't like to be defeated by difficulties.
However, I don't really think that Mr. Plushenko is reacting this way on his own; in the past, he has more than once demonstrated his ability to get through all sorts of defeats and difficulties.
The Zairean army (the Forces Armées Zaïroises) was defeated without difficulty and the FNLC continued to advance.
The president's defeat highlighted the difficulty he is likely to encounter in seeking to reform the judiciary, which supported the military during its rule in the 17 months following Mr. Mubarak's resignation and Mr. Morsi's election in July, as well as the security forces.
There will be compromises, difficulties and defeats ahead.
But he wasn't just talking about the difficulties of defeating Harrison, Byram Hills and Rye within the league.
Because Gulbis has beaten Federer before, in Rome in 2010, as well as inflicting either difficulty or defeat on pretty much everyone else.
"We have to be realistic about the difficulties of defeating this resolution but we intend to keep fighting it and make our points as clear and strong as we can," Mr. Fried said in a telephone interview.
Either Europeans will develop the security and defense identity they have advertised for so long, so Europe can have its own credible voice in a world not only run by soft power, or given the expense and difficulties of defeating even Libya, they will simply stop trying.
