Sentence examples for difficult presence from inspiring English sources

Throughout the film, the boys' father, Oscar, remains a somewhat difficult presence.

He thought Mr. Vivona was a difficult presence, a man who ostentatiously flashed rolls of cash and who frequently complained.

But McKinnon is a more difficult presence.

The other fine thing is the difficult, insistent presence of Evie, the lover's daughter.

The reader's tragedy to A People's Tragedy is that the book itself is a difficult physical presence; it weighs at least a stone, and so is too heavy to carry outside, and it is so large and sharp that if you try to read it in bed, you will forever scar the flesh on which it must rest.

Due to the diversity of pollutants in pulp paper mill wastewater, their control is very difficult and presence in water resources poses a high risk to the environment as well as human health.

For younger generations his work was a brooding presence, difficult to get through to and impossible to get away from.

The task is made more difficult by the presence of Dale Davis, who has grabbed 16 rebounds in each of the first two games.

Murder is made more difficult by the presence of security cameras, requiring that your weapons be hidden, and survival is made more difficult by the necessity to attend to basic bodily needs like sleeping, eating and showering.

One of the main goals was to avoid developing the waterfront as an isolated hamlet, a job made more difficult by the presence of the railroad line between the waterfront land and the core of the town.

The path to a settlement will be appallingly difficult, given the presence of hard-line elements on all sides and the bitter hatreds generated by more than 30 years of civil war.