The opening words were: "Life is difficult". This was a pronouncement to which Peck could personally attest.
"And this explains why they find explicit political pronouncements so difficult to make".
Now, as then, the cold certainties of his rightwing pronouncements are difficult to square with their tentative, self-effacing delivery.
Of course, it's difficult to make sweeping pronouncements until we see how the new generation of "digital natives" turns out.
Their accounts are obscure and less than rigorously scientific, and littered with oracular pronouncements notoriously difficult to interpret, but they nonetheless do mark the beginning of the attempt to give a scientific account of the world.
Many found his gravelly, muffled pronouncements too difficult to understand.
Professor Rakove and Professor Reynolds are facing off over exactly what James Madison intended the Second Amendment to mean, a difficult topic because Madison's pronouncements on the subject are sparse and subject to interpretation.
"If any of these is ever diminished, the last is the most difficult to restore". But official pronouncements aren't enough as the tattered reputation of that once august firm demonstrates, Employees should feel free to raise issues to senior officers about actions that could put the entire organization at risk.
Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck of the 10th Mountain Division, greeted the soldiers' return, after six days of mopping-up operations, with more of the enthusiasm that has characterized all official American military pronouncements since the difficult early days of the fighting, when eight American servicemen were killed.
As so often with Rumsfeld's pronouncements, it was difficult to work out quite what he meant.
I kept thinking of the professor's pronouncement about "Lolita," and how difficult it had been for me to get it out of my head.
