Sentence examples for difficult son from inspiring English sources

Better yet, he has compassion for Chantale, a single mother with a difficult son.

He writes as a humanist, trying to understand Mary as a suffering human being afflicted with a difficult son.

Soon the cash ran out, and he returned home to menial, long hours of underpaid factory work while his father fretted, scolded and did everything else he could to misunderstand his sensitive and difficult son.

His mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) has remarried and isn't even sure she likes her difficult son. "I must have interviewed 75 actors for the part of Sam," said Irwin Winkler, the director.

Female directors are not entirely absent at the festival, with Julie Delpy following up 2012's Two Days in New York with Lolo, a comedy in which she plays a woman returning to France and finding a new relationship threatened by her difficult son.

The book ended with a superb account, at once funny and desolating, of a holiday outing by Frank and his difficult son Paul that began and went on disastrously yet ended, again, with a sort of affirmation, at that most banal and endearing of occasions, a Fourth of July march – "The trumpets go again.

Difficult sons, wicked sons he cannot restrain.

"To watch him get caught in this kind of scandal and to watch the effect it had on him was very difficult," the son said.

It doesn't help that she was saddled with the most onerous of the first season's tedious and nonsensical subplots, which wrapped together adoption, infidelity and a difficult teenage son.

We got all warm and fuzzy reading Cheryl Strayed's "Baby Weight," years before she reached her current perch on the top of the bestseller list with her hiking-as-redemption memoir "Wild," and we agonized alongside Adrienne Jones when we read "Love With Teeth," on parenting her deeply difficult infant son Carter.

She's canny, she's strong-willed, she has grit, she has a vivid imagination, she's loyal, she's a competent, mostly single mother who shows deep love for her difficult, moody son, and she keeps a big and complex household running for two decades.