During his time as the mayor of New York City, between 1994 and 2001, he displayed a level of abrasiveness that even New Yorkers found difficult to bear.
"Some things I found difficult to accept.
Even the greatest of patriots find the sacrifice difficult to bear.
But on the flip side, one academic study reports: "Individuals low in socioeconomic status simply find it more difficult to bear the costs of voting, which includes both decision costs and the direct costs of registering and going to the polls".
A French filmmaker sitting next to me found the documentary difficult to bear -- and "problematic".
They must have found the spectacle very difficult to bear.
When reality becomes too difficult to bear, then stories find other ways to come out, telling themselves in language positioned at a jaunty angle to the material facts.
Herzen now found Bakunin's financial and political irresponsibility difficult to bear.
She worked in a Huntington nursing home and found the burden of paperwork ever more difficult to bear.
The Goshawk is a painful read, and I still find White's relationship with his hawk very difficult to bear.
