It is difficult to understand the state of mind of people who are willing to end their own lives and the lives of many others.
The powerful pain medications were making it difficult to maintain the state of mind I wanted to have at my death".
There are huge cultural barriers anyway and then you have to remember this is a regime where everything that isn't forbidden is compulsory, so it's difficult to know what their state of mind really is".
It is common to have "mixed emotions," when the countercurrents of pleasure and pain make it difficult to settle on a single state of mind.
It said that discriminatory acts were covered by federal statute but that the government had to show intent, a state of mind notoriously difficult to prove.
This made it rather difficult to reach a suitably somber state of mind for the play's denouement, when that gorgeous snowstorm sweeps in, bringing with it the ultimate big chill.
People always see the superficial part, the punishment, but this is no different from rituals in Asian and Indian cultures, of the Tibetan monks I've spent time with every year since 1981: to go through a difficult task to come to another state of mind.
Cuteness can only get a person so far and, in He's Way More Famous Than You, Feiffer's character is such a physical, emotional, and mental mess that it becomes difficult to sympathize with her addled state of mind or find her the least bit appealing as a character.
"Racially motivated cases are very difficult because you need to establish the state of mind of the perpetrator at the time he committed the crime," said William Yeomans, who was acting assistant attorney general in 2001.
Is it difficult to write humour when you're in this state of mind?
