At the center of the plot lives a mysterious character, the mad scientist known only as Dr. V, owner of a magical putter, genius-yet-difficult mind and decidedly questionable past.
This is just idle gossip so far, of course, a combination of speculation and not-very-difficult mind-reading (of course Prince wants an Oscar for his score!).
For a start there are so many facts – and quite a few "facts" – that just keeping track of them all is difficult, never mind the effort required to verify which ones have real weight.
For a new and untested party, however, overcoming the barriers of a first-past-the-post electoral system will be incredibly difficult, never mind competing successfully against three established and well-resourced parties that can each trace their roots back over a century.
If you immediately classify it as something hard or difficult, your mind thinks of it in a stressful manner, making things even harder to understand.
In a battery of tasks, some easy and others difficult, seniors mind-wandered far less than college students (about one-third versus one-half).
Holding on has proved difficult enough, never mind building a New Jerusalem.
It's often very difficult for the mind to hold something that doesn't neatly fit in the categories we've created.
But ambivalence is a difficult state of mind to sustain; the temptation to replace it with a more Manichaean vision is always close at hand.
It is difficult in your mind to change your view and say Messi is better or Ronaldo is better but right now Messi is the best in the world".
His subsequent work, which abounded until his death, in 1955, is less familiar, because most of it is gruellingly difficult; the great mind finally spiralled in on itself, like a ruminative Narcissus.
