The heavier and slower-paced clay, involving longer rallies and a difficult blend of running and sliding across the court, is generally considered to be the most physically exhausting of the court surfaces.
"You get this kind of difficult blend of family-of-origin issues as well as religious and cultural issues all at the same time," said Karen Erlichman, a licensed clinical social worker in San Francisco who specializes in counseling interfaith couples.
Dark chocolate is really complex, and can be difficult to blend with other forceful ingredients like Scotch.
As more people are living longer, more are becoming outcasts in a family-based society where it is difficult to blend into the crowd.
Sally Wingert, as the "far too saucy" servant, Dorine, comes closest to achieving the difficult Molière blend of truth-telling and humor.
This, I notice, makes it very difficult to blend and I understand why when I read the Cooks Illustrated recipe which, on advice from food science guru Harold McGee, uses cold liquid instead.
Part of the reason for the Dolphins' consternation is that after Week 1 they rank last in the A.F.C. in total defense, and 30th, two notches from the bottom, in the N.F.L. Buckley said it was difficult to blend new players -- the Dolphins have four new defenders, including the starters Junior Seau (linebacker) and Sammy Knight (strong safety) -- without some initial bumps in the road.
Ueno admits that foreigners find it difficult to blend in when they first arrive in Japan.
Tapes needed to be rewound and replayed, which made them difficult to blend seamlessly into the background.
But when it does work, which is most of the time, "Stranger Things" is genuinely creepy and sincerely sweet, two great tastes that may, in the parlance of the times, taste great together but are difficult to blend successfully.
The key to this kind of thing is to look like you're supposed to be there, but it was kind of difficult to blend in with the guests when one activist was wearing a T-shirt with "BLACK REVS" plastered on the back.
