Sentence examples for difficult altogether from inspiring English sources

Lubbock wanted to edit the book, but was aware, as he told Bosanquet, that even talking to the James family involved moving "in such a cloud of fine discretions and hesitations and precautions that it is difficult altogether to know where one is".

These inconsistencies or mistakes thwarted our attempts at pooling of results and made a sensible summary difficult altogether.

In the end, we don't need to avoid difficult conversations altogether just to avoid letting them go too far.

Ukrainians filed into polling stations on a clear, chilly morning Sunday to elect a new parliament, while the nation's leader, whose pro-Western party is projected to win a majority of seats in the contest, visited soldiers in the restive east, where voting in some areas was difficult or altogether stifled.

Even if an athlete might have the resources to enlist researchers to carefully study his or her performance, the IAAF requires the athlete to do something that is very difficult, and often altogether impossible to prove a negative.

But the dynamic and decentralized nature of the markets make them difficult to stop altogether.

For Grant, that period of time was difficult for an altogether more tragic reason as he and his wife, Joan, grieved the loss of their daughter Tiffany, born prematurely at seven months and pronounced dead within a few minutes.

As the hard fight over the Trans Pacific Partnership ("TPP") proceeds, it is important not to confuse the foulness of the TPP's proposed rules with the otherwise difficult, but not altogether undesirable, prospect of super-national rules of law.

This result suggests that a publication citing within its discipline is more difficult to ignore altogether.

These inherent attributes of calcification-related proteins make it difficult if not altogether impossible to classify the respective roles of the same proteins during the mineralization process without first considering their physiological context (see also the excellent reviews in refs. [82], [100]).

Now the crown of public contempt passes to Bernard Tomic, a man whose personality is altogether as difficult as Hewitt's but difficult in new and interesting ways, and who can at the very least, through the unorthodox angularity of his deck-chair physique, redeem the excesses of his own self-importance with surprising moments of utterly original racquetwork.